Gerhard Richter Quote

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... Painting is another form of thinking.


Quote from the documentary 'Gerhard Richter - Painting', Corrinna Belz, 2011


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...

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...

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...

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...