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Georg Baselitz - From the Art category:
Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Change category:
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 has ever changed anything for better or worse. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Communication category:
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 work cannot be used. It is the end product which counts. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Contemporary Art category:
-interview with Spiegel Online...
I had two big exhibitions in Dresden, but no one went... And look at music. Alfred Schnittke was an important contemporary composer, and he lived in Germany, but no one here has heard of him... I think that our music and our art belong to our era. If the public doesn't show up, it must be stupid. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Difficulty category:
My Paintings are Battles. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Exhibitions category:
I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Finishing category:
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)
Georg Baselitz - From the Gender category:
-interview with Spiegel Online...
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)
Georg Baselitz - From the Importance category:
What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Mediums category:
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)
Georg Baselitz - From the Modernism category:
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)
Georg Baselitz - From the Museums category:
-interview with Spiegel Online...
Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me nor the other usual suspects. It's simply a German reality. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Museums category:
-interview with Spiegel Online...
In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking about me and my paintings. There are, after all, more popular painters in this country. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Patriotism category:
You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Portraiture category:
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)
Georg Baselitz - From the Purpose category:
Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Purpose category:
- artisticactivism.org...
Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.' (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Questions category:
I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Reality category:
The reality is the picture; it is most certainly not in the picture. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Recognition category:
-to Spiegel regarding Berlin's National Gallery...
Spending money on art has always been frowned upon in this country... The people in charge are always peddling reasons that others seem to accept. Those who don't drink and aren't crazy, or who don't attract attention with how they behave in public, aren't noticed in art. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Renewal category:
I love my old paintings as postulates, as fresh starting points, but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Responsibility category:
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)
Georg Baselitz - From the Sculpture category:
So I made unpleasant sculptures - and now they aren't unpleasant any more. That's the way it goes. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Sculpture category:
Sculpture like archaeology: You dig in and you find something. (Georg Baselitz)
Georg Baselitz - From the Struggle category:
I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life. (Georg Baselitz)
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