Baselitz Paintings Quotes

#1. Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

Dan Simmons

#2. Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

Gertrude Stein

#3. The single characteristic that most makes a difference in the success of an article or nonfiction book is the author's courage in revealing normally unspoken things about himself or his society. It takes guts to be a writer

Sol Stein

#4. I've been a ruined man for a long time. I can't ruin you too.

T.M. Frazier

#5. I can never quite trust anybody anymore.

Cat Stevens

#6. Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Coco Chanel

#7. Why onions? Because they're cheap, last a long time, can be lit any number of ways and force me to think about what happens when the form turns away from the light.

Nick Stone

#8. Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
He laughed. "That's against the law!"
"Oh. Of course.

Ray Bradbury

#9. My Paintings are Battles.

Georg Baselitz

#10. I looked her up and down. She wouldn't meet my eyes. I didn't recognize her anymore. She was nothing like the image of her I had in my head. Her features meant nothing to me; she was someone else.

Yasmina Khadra

#11. There's precious little reform in the human race.

Stephen King

#12. 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

#13. The Nile is mine; I made it,

Joel Richardson

#14. I'm just glad you're safe. My beautiful boy is here. That's all I care about, Tom. Nothing else matters.

Josh Lacey

#15. The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.

William J. Mann

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Magic underlies the relationship between us, and the greater immensities of birth and death. Thus the experience of being in the presence of something magical is an empowering, uplifting experience. Magic, understood this way, contributes meaning to life.

Brendan Myers

#19. I didn't realize how much I loved the game until I couldn't play it.

Mark Teixeira