Georg Baselitz Quotes - Page 2

• I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.

  Georg Baselitz

  Painting, Feels

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• Most of arts what comes from the States to Europe has something to do with entertainment. I can't imagine artists in the United States having the same kind of isolated position that we have here in Europe. I have a feeling one lives more publically in the States.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Feelings, Kind

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• My Paintings are Battles.

  Georg Baselitz

  Battle, Painting, Difficulty

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• I am not a representative of anything. When art historians or critics or the public put somebody in a drawer like this, it has a tranquilizing, paralyzing effect. Artists are individuals. They have ideas, and the conventions for one's self as an individual are not for a group. There are always those who follow the group, but they belong in the margins. I refuse to be placed within, or added to, one particular school.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, School, Individual

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• Como artista, he asumido riesgos. Y he hecho muchas cosas diferentes. No se lo pongo fácil a la gente. La identificación es difícil. Uno no reconoce mi arte de inmediato.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, People, Different

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Spending money on art has always been frowned upon in this country - even earlier, when my and others' paintings cost almost nothing. Something is always more important. 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

  Country, Art, Crazy

  "'My Paintings are Battles'". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Ulrike Knöfel, www.spiegel.de. January 25, 2013.

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• When I began as an artist, I already did not like expressionism, or abstract expressionism, because abstract painting had already been done. I did not want to belong to any one group or the other, and I'm not one or the other.

  Georg Baselitz

  Artist, Done, Painting

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• Despite all the taxes people pay, there supposedly isn't any money in this country for art. Of course, this makes an artist ask himself: "Well, then, what are you doing with the 100 million I pay each year? What happened to that money?" And he doesn't get an answer.

  Georg Baselitz

  País, Arte, Gente

  "My Paintings are Battles". Interview with Susanne Beyer, Ulrike Knöfel, www.spiegel.de. January 25, 2013.

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• I do not have a philosophy about retrospectives. Of course, I cannot change what I have done. What I am doing today, this I can change, in view of whatever I have done before. My retrospectives are like a series of ghosts.

  Georg Baselitz

  Philosophy, Done, Today

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• I started collecting my artist friends, artists like myself who nobody had yet noticed. In everything, all I am collecting, so to speak, are my friends - artist friends.

  Georg Baselitz

  Artist, Speak

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• I've painted, but I've also done graphics since as long as I can remember. So even people with little to spend could afford it. But even the graphic works are only bought by those who buy the big, expensive paintings. I think that's troublesome.

  Georg Baselitz

  Pensar, Largo, Gente

  "'My Paintings are Battles'". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Ulrike Knöfel, www.spiegel.de. January 25, 2013.

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• I was always on the outside. It was the worst when I still wanted to be a professor, having to deal with colleagues and students, and having to listen to all that academic nonsense. It's really just a haze that keeps them busy. But all of that is fortunately over now, once and for all.

  Georg Baselitz

  Students, Busy, Nonsense

  "My Paintings are Battles". Interview with Susanne Beyer, Ulrike Knöfel, www.spiegel.de. January 25, 2013.

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• I have always been aware of different movements and directions in art. But, in general, I'm always bored by any kind of generalization when it comes to artists. I think that there are just single individuals, who are valuable, and they work outside of any group.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Thinking, Work Out

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• Pinto a artistas alemanes a los que admiro. Pinto sus cuadros, su trabajo como pintores y también sus retratos. Pero, curiosamente, cada uno de esos retratos acaba siendo el de una mujer rubia. Nunca he sido capaz de entender por qué ocurre esto.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Hair, Work Out

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• In a place like the Guggenheim, I would like to be a representative of arte povera. This would be my ideal.

  Georg Baselitz

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• I became an artist because of the possibility it gave me to develop in another way, because I didn't want to follow the same lines the others around me did. I was educated in the former German Democratic Republic, which meant that an individual figure had to be... like a soldier in the army.

  Georg Baselitz

  Army, Artist, Soldier

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• I don't know who made up this sort of greatest-hits list for artists. If one artist isn't moving forward anymore, then it's assumed another one is going to take their place. With Francis Bacon's death, a whole genre of art died.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Moving, Moving Forward

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• Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Believe, Play

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• A diferencia de los expresionistas, nunca me ha interesado renovar el mundo a través del arte.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, World, Vehicle

  Interview with Pamela Kort, michaelwerner.com. April 2003.

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• 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

  Communication, Artist, Information

  Georg Baselitz, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum (1983). “Baselitz, paintings 1960-83”

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• Los museos coleccionan lo que es importante en sus respectivos países. Pero en la Galería Nacional de Berlín no es así. No les intereso ni yo ni los demás sospechosos habituales. Es simplemente una realidad alemana.

  Georg Baselitz

  Country, Reality, Museums

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• Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without me having to demonstrate it.

  Georg Baselitz

  Painting, Painter

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• I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

  Georg Baselitz

  House, Everyday, Canvas

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• I think the defect actually lies with male artists. Male artists often border on idiocy, while it's important for a woman not to be that way, if possible. Women are outstanding in science, just as good as men.

  Georg Baselitz

  Lying, Artist, Men

  "Georg Baselitz Is a Sexist Grump". SPIEGEL Interview, hyperallergic.com. January 30, 2013.

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• Alfred Schnittke fue un importante compositor contemporáneo, y vivió en Alemania, pero aquí nadie ha oído hablar de él. Todo el mundo ha oído hablar de Mozart, y muchos creen que aún puede encontrarse en esa casita de Salzburgo, por eso la gente hace cola allí. Creo que nuestra música y nuestro arte pertenecen a nuestra época. Si el público no acude, debe de ser estúpido.

  Georg Baselitz

  Arte, Estúpido, Creer

  "German Artist Georg Baselitz: 'My Paintings are Battles'". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Ulrike Knofel, www.spiegel.de. January 25, 2013.

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