The water
The water didn't realize
Its dangerous size
The mountain
The mountain came to recognize
Its steep and rocky sides
More than realized

I pursue no objectives, no system, no tendency; I have no programme, no style, no direction.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery.

I steer clear of definitions.

I don't know what I want.

I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive;

I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.

Other qualities may be conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn-

as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts, and names for things.

Now that there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

That is the only thing that interests me.







Gerhard Richter