October 2, 2005
Gerhard Richter, The Daily Practice of Painting: Writings 1962-1993 (Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1995).
"Happenings, pictures, objects: the lay person has and makes all these in a way that puts every artist to shame. Have artists ever made objects remotely as large and as good as a lay person's garden?" (22).
"Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures" (35).
"The reason why a pyramid was built is one thing, and how we see it now is quite another" (60).
"For an artist there must be no names: not table for table, not house for house, no Christmas Eve for 24 December, not even 24 December for 24 December. We have no business knowing such nonsense" (39).
"Happenings, pictures, objects: the lay person has and makes all these in a way that puts every artist to shame. Have artists ever made objects remotely as large and as good as a lay person's garden?" (22).
"Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures" (35).
"The reason why a pyramid was built is one thing, and how we see it now is quite another" (60).
"For an artist there must be no names: not table for table, not house for house, no Christmas Eve for 24 December, not even 24 December for 24 December. We have no business knowing such nonsense" (39).
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