26 julio 2012

Gerhard Richter

Let's stay with scraping off for a moment. Is this removal paint an aggressive thing?
Yes, certainly.
It has something to do with injury.
Yes, with injury, and with taking something that has been made and destroying it, subtracting, scratching it out. And then the pleasant feeling that you can get something else in return.
Perhaps that's the basic idea of giving things up.
Getting something better.


Entrevista con Doris Von Drathen, 1992.