Georg Baselitz Quotes

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• What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.
• I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these…
• The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.
• The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
• I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique,…
• I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.
• Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
• You dig in and you find something.
• An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.
• I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns..…
• I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by…
• What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.
• I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.
• I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but…
• Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.
• 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…
• There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no information, and his…
• My Paintings are Battles.
• I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.
• Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

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