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My last wife [woman-artist Isa Genzken, he married in 1982 - they broke up in 1993] was very competitive, which was hard for both of us.

— Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter: An Artist Beyond Isms (2002)

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Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violence, and I am not violent).

Doubt and belief in painting (2003)

I would rather paint the victims than the killers.. .When Warhol painted the killers, I painted the victims. The subjects were of poor people, banal poor dogs.

Doubt and belief in painting (2003)

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

The Daily Practice of Painting, Writings (1962)

Art is the highest form of hope.

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