Gerhard Richter Quotes
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
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The greatest poverty in America today is time poverty. People have money, but they don't have time.
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We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.
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I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.
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All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.
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I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.
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When reached for comment on the charges, Martha didn't say much, (only) that a subpoena should be served with a nice appetizer.
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The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
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Do not judge. Never presume to judge another human being anyway. That's up to heaven.
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Practice excited thinking until you become excited and exciting.
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The bold are helpless without cleverness.
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Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the line that marks the movement of the whole. Don't have more than one movement in a figure; you can't patch parts together. Simple lines; then simple values. Establish the fact of the whole. Is it square, oblong, cube, or what is it?
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There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
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You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.
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I have travelled a great deal - to Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt - and can very well differentiate between moderate Muslims and Islam.
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If you have a pack establishing dominance in an area that involves such physical exertion, you're sucking the life out of the opposition.
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It's (The Cult) always been me and Ian, and it always will be. We're a little wiser, but just as pissed off as we ever were.
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My paintings are wiser than I am.
