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“Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.” quote by Georg Baselitz — Download Open image

“Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.”

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When Michael Werner saw a painting of mine, such as Die grosse Nacht im Eimer, which back then nobody wanted and everybody thought was…

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I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of…

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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…

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Alfred Schnittke was an important contemporary composer, and he lived in Germany, but no one here has heard of him. Everyone has heard of Mozart, and many believe that he can still be found in that little house in Salzburg, which is why people stand there in line. I think that our music and our art belong to our era.…

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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…

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A citizen sticks to conventions, does whatever is social. Artists, of course, must reject all conventions. I see no differently in reconciling the best…

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I do not have a philosophy about retrospectives. Of course, I cannot change what I have done. What I am doing today, this I…

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An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

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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…

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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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I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

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I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised…

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