Came across
http://www.goethe.de/kue/bku/thm/kab/en3950563.htmPainting as such is the sole purpose of Richter’s pictures. He has no intention of transporting a meaning into his paintings beyond this. “Nothing is what abstract painting depicts, vividly and directly, with all the means available to art,” he says. In an interview with Robert Storr in 2002, the artist summed up his strong faith in painting in the following words: “As a German I was accustomed to the idea that I was worthless. So my paintings were worthless. I was worthless. And in spite of this, I still believed in painting.
I have seen for myself that obeying the rules is pretty much instilled, but the psyche of the world was a different place then?
Did Germans really become accustomed to the idea that they were worthless or was it only because he is Jewish?