Gerhard Quotes

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

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

I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try something.

When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.

I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

What counts isn't being able to do a thing, it's seeing what it is. Seeing is the decisive act, and ultimately it places the maker and the viewer on the same level.

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals.

Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.

I go to the studio every day, but I dont paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.

A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.

Germany is very free-trade oriented.

Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.

They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos.

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.

We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.

Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

A comprehended God is no God at all!

Christian growth is forgetting about yourself.

In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this...to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom.

...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.

The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home.

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.

We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.

As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

This question about Iraq has gotten personal.

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

The euro will raise the citizens' awareness of their belonging to one Europe more than any other integration step to date.

They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroeder favors Germany. That is what we all have to understand.

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

The good news is that as fragile as fearlessness may be, it is also a personal quality that we can foster in ourselves.

Keep smiling for your day will become a smile.