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Gerhard Richter Quotes: I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.
         

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.


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I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.



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All photographs are far more important than any painting.



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Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.



I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible



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