Gerhard Richter

Art...is particular mode of our daily dealings with appearance, in which we recognize ourselves and everything that surrounds us. Thus, art is the desire in the manufacture of appearances that are comparable with these of reality, because they are more or less similar to them. Thus, art is possibility of thinking abgout everything differently, of recognizing appearance as fundamentally inadequate... because of that, art has an educative and therapeutic, comforting and enlightening, exploratory and speculative function, thus, it is not just existential pleasure, but utopia.