GERHARD RICHTER

''If the Abstract Pictures show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. This is a grossly oversimplified, off-balance way of putting it, of course; but though these pictures are motivated by the dream of a classical order and a pristine world - by nostalgia, in other words - the anachronism in them takes on a subversive and contemporary quality.''
Gerhard Richter