America's Prodigy


         

Thoughts on the definition of culture II

          From his diaries, 1964:
         
          "I see countless landscapes, photograph scarcely one in 100'000, painting hardly one in 100 photographed landscapes - I am therefore looking for something quite specific; from this I conclude that I know what I want."
         
          Gerhard Richter
          Atlas
          ed. Helmut Friedel
          Thames and Hudson
          pg 5-6