The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, … - Gerhard Richter

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It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

Gerhard Richter

The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing is wrong too. Then smudging can help make the painting invincible, surreal, more enigmatic - that's how easy it is.

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Art is the highest form of hope.

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It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

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To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.

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