"Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world."

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Source : FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Aug 06, 2015

Gerhard Richter

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.”
“The early days of the end of the Clintonian control of the Democratic Party will be times when there are many opportunities for people and organizations to jump into the openings in the power hierarchy that is forming.”
“I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.”
“I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost.”
“I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.”
“I don't think that the United States are ready for a presidency as the one of Obama, at least because he would be the first black president.”

Source : Interview with Gianni Riotta, RaiUno channel, March 07, 2008.
“It would never occur to me to map my research against events in my life, and the recent history of globalization seems to be part of someone else's life. Still, maybe I have been trying to fill in a history or address that amnesia for the recent past. There's so much that's opaque about the ways in which extra layers of global governance have developed since Pax Americana and really accelerated in these last thirty, forty years.”
“French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.”

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