Georg Baselitz Quotes

• 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

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• I have trouble with beauty.

  Georg Baselitz

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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

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  Tags in Expressionist, Painting, European

• 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

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  Tags in German, Artist

• 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

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  Tags in Wood, Importance

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  I always feel attacked when I’m asked about my painting.

   

  Georg Baselitz

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  Tags in Self, Feeling, Painting

• 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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Self, Uncertainty

• 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

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  Tags in Artist, Responsibility

• Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

  Georg Baselitz

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  Tags in Expressionist

Georg Baselitz (9)

Birth:	23rd January, 1938
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Painter, Sculptor

About

Georg Baselitz was born in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony, East Germany. He is a German painter and Sculptor who studied in the former East Germany, before moving to what was then the country of West Germany. Baselitz's style is interpreted by the Northern American as Neo-Expressionist, but from a European perspective, it is more seen as postmodern. In 1957, he produced his first original works in a distinct style of his own, among them the imaginary portraits "Uncle Bernhard"/ "Onkel Bernhard." In the same year, he started work on the "Rayski-Head"/ "Rayski-Kopf" series. In 1963, Baselitz's first solo exhibition at Galerie Werner & Katz, Berlin, caused a public scandal. In 1980, he showed his first sculpture at the Venice Biennale.

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