"I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false"

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Source : Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting”, p.66, The Museum of Modern Art

Gerhard Richter

#Art Quotes #Believe Quotes #Kind Quotes

“There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.”
“I don't know your story or your dreams or the things that steal your sleep, but I know they matter. I hope you story is rich with characters, rich with friends and conversation. I hope you know some people who carry you, and I hope you have the honor of carrying them. I hope that there's beauty in your memories, and I hope it doesn't haunt you. And if it does, then I hope there is someone who will walk you through the night and remind you of the promise of the sunrise, that beauty keeps coming, that there are futures worth waiting and fighting for, and that you were made to dream.”
“You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.”
“I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit my ear so I can shape different resonances and shifts in tone.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.”

Source : Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”
“Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are apparently "insiders" know how vulnerable the system is because they know how ambiguous their own attachments to it are. The slightest challenge exposes the fragile foundations of legitimacy of the state.”

Source : John H. Schaar (1981). “Legitimacy in the Modern State”, p.31, Transaction Publishers
“Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.”
“Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.”

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