Gerhard Richter Quotes

Truth is created, not discover!

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

Truth is an illusory notion.

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

Truth is whatever people will believe.

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.

Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

All politicians operate within an Orwellian nimbus where words don't mean what they normally mean, but Rovism posits that there is no objective, verifiable reality at all. Reality is what you say it is.

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

All our experiences have led us to believe certain things about ourselves. Whether these beliefs are true or not really doesn't matter because if we accept them as true, then they are true for us.

Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. They have no other way of living.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.

For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's fallacies or falsehoods. It just happens to be one perception of what's happening.

Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.