"See you at the party, Richter!" Print

"To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that." "Art is the highest form of hope." "I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information." "It makes no sense to expect or claim to 'make the invisible visible', or the unknown known, or the unthinkable thinkable. We can draw conclusions about the invisible; we can postulate its existence with relative certainty. But all we can represent is an analogy, which stands for the invisible but is not it." "I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human." "I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work." "I can't paint as well as Vermeer." "I go to the studio every day, but I don't paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things." -Gerhard Richter Douglas Quaid: See you at the party, Richter! Lori: Doug, honey... you wouldn't hurt me, would you, sweetheart? Sweetheart, be reasonable. After all, we're married! [Lori goes for her gun, Quaid shoots her in the head, killing her] Douglas Quaid: Consider that a divorce! Benny: Hey, Quaid! I'm gonna squash you! Douglas Quaid: Benny! Here! Benny: [shouts] Where the fuck are you? Douglas Quaid: [killing him with a large drill] SCREW YOU! Kuato: What do you want, Mr. Quaid? Douglas Quaid: The same as you; to remember. Kuato: But why? Douglas Quaid: To be myself again. Kuato: You are what you do. A man is defined by his actions, not his memory. Lori: No wonder you're having nightmares. You're always watching the news. Lori: Sorry, Quaid. Your whole life is just a dream. from 'Total Recall' (1990) Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (Junior), Rachel Ticotin (Falling Down), Ronny Cox (Beverly Hills Cop II), Sharon Stone (The Quick and the Dead), and Michael Ironside (Splinter Cell). Directed by Paul Verhoeven (Starship Troopers). Based on the short story 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale' by Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) Total Recall is a 1990 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, and Michael Ironside. The film is loosely based on the 1966 Philip K. Dick short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". The film tells the story of a construction worker who suddenly finds himself embroiled in espionage on Mars and unable to determine if the experiences are real or the result of memory implants. It was written by Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, Jon Povill, and Gary Goldman, and won a Special Achievement Academy Award for its visual effects. The original score, composed by Jerry Goldsmith, won the BMI Film Music Award. With a budget of $50–60 million, Total Recall was one of the most expensive films made at the time of its release, although estimates of its production budget vary and whether it ever actually held the record is not certain. "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" is a short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in April 1966. It features a melding of reality, false memory, and real memory. The story was adapted into the 1990 film Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the story's protagonist; that film was remade in 2012 with Colin Farrell as the protagonist. Source: Wikipedia Note: This painting I started and finished this morning (9/29/20). I was inspired to try this style after rewatching a highly recommended documentary on Gerhard Richter called 'Gerhard Richter Painting' (2011). Another note (10/27): I've been meaning to comment on this painting since a few days after I posted it. I had a title before I even started it. I had been meaning to do a Gerhard Richter style painting and knew I would name it after Arnold's line in 'Total Recall', no matter what it looked like. I chose the colors because they were kinda "party" looking. The fact that it kind of looks like the 'Total Recall' poster is pure coincidence or sub-conscious, I'm not sure on that one.