Top 37 Georg Baselitz Quotes
#1. [The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel ... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.
Laozi
#3. A fan is like the thighs of a woman: It opens and closes. A good fan opens with a flick of the wrist. It produces its own weather
a breeze not so strong as to muss the hair.
Rikki Ducornet
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.
Georg Baselitz
#8. I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.
Georg Baselitz
#9. Today, I attended a friend's birthday party dressed as a ninja. I soon discovered that ninjas are very misunderstood.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#10. What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.
Georg Baselitz
#11. 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
#12. They're [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I've never seen the clown werewolf or vampire. But because zombies are us, at the lowest possible level, they're a lot more versatile for storytelling.
Tom Savini
#13. You and me. No more running away. I kiss you. I touch you. And you stay.
Stephanie Rose
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.
Steve Martin
#18. Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-El, to save the planet Earth.
Barack Obama
#20. An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.
Georg Baselitz
#21. 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
#22. In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.
Karen Joy Fowler
#23. 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
#25. Why do the chimookomanag want us?" she growled. "They take all that makes us Anishinaabeg. Everything about us. First our land, then our trees. Now husbands, our wives, our children, our souls. Why do they want to capture every bit?
Louise Erdrich
#26. 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
#27. Once you do something, you never forget. Even if you can't remember.
Spirited Away
#28. 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
#29. Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.
Georg Baselitz
#31. Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
Georg Baselitz
#32. 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
#34. The melodies come out so strong that I'm like, "Oh, crap." It's really better if they could both be kind of able to compromise, but the melodies, even more recently, they come out very fully cast and formed.
Andrew Bird
#35. I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do ... something that references tradition, but is still new.
Georg Baselitz
#36. What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.
Georg Baselitz
#37. 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
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