The paintings have an overwhelming sense of poetry.

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Gerhard Richter

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In the desert you can remember your name

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by Herman Schildert

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Gerhard Richter

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Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults

“By placing paint on photographs, with all their random and involuntary expressiveness, Gerhard Richter reinforces the unique aspect of each of these mediums and opens a field of tension rich in paradoxes, as old as the couple – painting / photography –which has largely defined modern art.” —Centre de la Photographie, Geneve

Inverted Commas: Henry Miller

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“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”

Henry Miller

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