A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I started collecting my artist friends, artists like myself who nobody had yet noticed. In everything, all I am collecting, so to… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
As an artist, I have been a risk-taker. And I've done a lot of different things. I don't make it easy for… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I became an artist because of the possibility it gave me to develop in another way, because I didn't want to follow… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough,… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I don't know who made up this sort of greatest-hits list for artists. If one artist isn't moving forward anymore, then it's… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I don't paint over my paintings with black paint. I paint black paintings. It isn't because I'm sad, just as I didn't… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Most of arts what comes from the States to Europe has something to do with entertainment. I can't imagine artists in the… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I think the defect actually lies with male artists. Male artists often border on idiocy, while it's important for a woman not… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
When Michael Werner saw a painting of mine, such as Die grosse Nacht im Eimer, which back then nobody wanted and everybody… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
In the beginning, the energy involved to create came from my reaction to the work of other artists. The force behind this… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I am not a representative of anything. When art historians or critics or the public put somebody in a drawer like this,… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
A citizen sticks to conventions, does whatever is social. Artists, of course, must reject all conventions. I see no differently in reconciling… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I did not always trust my teachers, because I found them too weak. I was looking for something that could take me… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Despite all the taxes people pay, there supposedly isn't any money in this country for art. Of course, this makes an artist… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I have always been aware of different movements and directions in art. But, in general, I'm always bored by any kind of… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
We have seen so many exhibits in recent years where the exhibition design was aesthetically beautiful. In this case, if someone wants… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
No one who looks at my paintings can see whether a painting is upside down or not anymore. I've made or developed… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Spending money on art has always been frowned upon in this country - even earlier, when my and others' paintings cost almost… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I've painted, but I've also done graphics since as long as I can remember. So even people with little to spend could… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
When I began as an artist, I already did not like expressionism, or abstract expressionism, because abstract painting had already been done.… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
There's a market for art, and things are indeed going swimmingly, especially for German artists. But everything takes place in America and… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
When Michael Werner saw a painting of mine, such as Die grosse Nacht im Eimer, which back then nobody wanted and everybody thought was… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share
Most of arts what comes from the States to Europe has something to do with entertainment. I can't imagine artists in the United States… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share
Alfred Schnittke was an important contemporary composer, and he lived in Germany, but no one here has heard of him. Everyone has heard of… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share
I don't paint over my paintings with black paint. I paint black paintings. It isn't because I'm sad, just as I didn't paint red… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share
A citizen sticks to conventions, does whatever is social. Artists, of course, must reject all conventions. I see no differently in reconciling the best… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share
I do not have a philosophy about retrospectives. Of course, I cannot change what I have done. What I am doing today, this I… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share
I don't know who made up this sort of greatest-hits list for artists. If one artist isn't moving forward anymore, then it's assumed another… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share
Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share
I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share
Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a painter. I… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share
I have always had the feeling that other people are too stupid to discover interesting things. That's why I do it myself. I think… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share
