The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse. — 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
