“The Abstract Expressionists were amazed at the pictorial quality of their productions, the wonderful world that opens up when you just paint... But the problem is this: not to generate any old thing with all the rightness and spontaneity of Nature, but to produce highly specific pictures with highly specific messages”
(Gerhard Richter, 'Notes, 1985', The Daily Practice of Painting: Writings 1962-1993, Cambridge 1995, p. 122).