Abstraktes Bild (721-1)

"Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate. We denote this reality in negative terms: the unknown, the incomprehensible, the infinite. And for thousands of years we have been depicting it through surrogate images such as heaven and hell, gods and devils. In abstract painting we have found a better way of gaining access to the unvisualizable, the incomprehensible; because abstract painting deploys the utmost visual immediacy- all the resources of art, in fact- in order to depict 'nothing'...we are seeing the unvisualizable: that which has never been seen before and is not visible." -Gerhard Richter