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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 paint red… — 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 the best… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
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 Image
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object. — 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 assumed another… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
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 Image
I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint. — 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 paintings despised… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
