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Georg Baselitz has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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,…
• 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…
• I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in…
• I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a…
• 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…
• I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the…
• What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.

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