Gerhard Richter Quote

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: Forty Years of Painting (ed. The Museum of Modern Art, 2002) - ISBN: 9780870703577


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 is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God.... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only ...

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 is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God.... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only ...