Art Quote by Georg Baselitz Download Open image “Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.” — Georg Baselitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Eruption Visceral Vulgar
Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it… — Ivan Brunetti Copy Share Image
Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming. — Val Kilmer 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image