Gerhard Richter Quotes
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
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There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.
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Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.
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The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
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We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
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If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.
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Politically it would be terribly repressive to prevent people from having as many children as they want. But something's got to prevent it; and it won't be pleasant... We're still behaving in ways that have become disastrous... I don't think this helps us to survive... We're very species-centric... and now exist at the expense of every other form of life on Earth.
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I met this amazing person, and we realized we had very similar views on how we wanted to live our lives. It’s happened quickly, with so many children. Yesterday, picking up the kids from school, Brad turned around in the car, and there were three of them. He couldn’t stop laughing. We love them and are having a great time.
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Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
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It's not really cool to be singled out.
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New York is not going to be a foreign place to me. They didn't revoke my visa.
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As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and bodies, their matted hair and runny noses. Here my life as a painter began in earnest.
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I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
