When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.
Gerhard RichterI don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.
Gerhard RichterI believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.
Gerhard RichterI believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. In nature everything is always right: the structure is right, the proportions are good, the colours fit the forms. If you imitate that in painting, it becomes false.
Gerhard Richter