Gerhard Richter Quotes

Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God.. .The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.

Gerhard Richter

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• I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Like
  • Historical
  • Novels

• I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Hope

• A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Fairness
  • Wage
  • Minimum Wage

• People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Kids
  • Thought

• It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Great
  • Game
  • Career

• When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • American
  • New

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
  • Movie
  • Stupid

• At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Party
  • Top
  • Jeans

• I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Cool
  • Point
  • Musical

• I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Like

• Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Happy
  • Gratitude
  • Thanks

• Good supporters who have single daughters say, 'Hey, you need to take my daughter out.' And it's awkward.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Good
  • You
  • Single

• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Success
  • Learn

• I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Beauty
  • Studio
  • Happiest

• I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Art
  • Book
  • Amazing

• The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Pretty
  • Fight
  • Honest

• Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.

  

  Mother Angelica
  • Pain
  • Sometimes
  • Suffering

• The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.

  

  Margaret Geller
  • Men
  • Why
  • History

• I like art because there are no wrong answers. It's all about how you see the world. So you can be completely yourself -Salma

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • World
  • Art
  • Yourself

• Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God.. .The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.

  

  Gerhard Richter
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Realization