Georg Baselitz Quotes

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Changes in style result from intellectual processes. I continually try to find something new so that I can change. I still do it today. Georg Baselitz | top
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I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting. Georg Baselitz | top
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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.. your thought process goes on. Georg Baselitz | top
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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, simple, unpretentious. Georg Baselitz | top
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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 by my father's generation. Georg Baselitz | top
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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 these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens. Georg Baselitz | top
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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. Georg Baselitz | top
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Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art. Georg Baselitz | top

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