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“Formalism stands for something negative: contrived stuff, games played with color, form, empty aesthetics. When I say that I take form as my starting point, and that I would like content to arise out of form (and not the reverse, whereby a form is found to fit a literary idea), this reflects my conviction that form, the cohesion of formal elements… generates a content—and that I can manipulate the outward appearances as it comes, in such a way as to yield this or that content… The issue of content is thus nonsense; i.e., there is nothing but form.”
Gerhard Richter
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