"Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts."

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When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel than to any kind of 'realism'. The photograph has an abstraction of its own, which is not easy to see through.

— Gerhard Richter