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" Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things. "
Gerhard Richter
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" A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer - so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong. "
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" Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and - rightly - no one else is interested in. "
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" Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb. "
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" I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which we have lost, but which places obligations on us. "
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