Georg Baselitz Quotes - Page 3

• No one who looks at my paintings can see whether a painting is upside down or not anymore. I've made or developed so many image models that some people have given up trying to keep track of me. But others have only one or two ways of doing things and are successful with that.

  Georg Baselitz

  Successful, People, Track

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• That was in 1957. And there I found out that Germany is a kind of province. I didn't know anything about expressionism, about the Bauhaus and Dada and surrealism. I was uneducated, so to speak - and everybody else was more or less uneducated, too.

  Georg Baselitz

  Kind, Speak, Surrealism

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• Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a painter. I never had that extreme talent.

  Georg Baselitz

  Talent, My Sister, Painter

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

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• We have seen so many exhibits in recent years where the exhibition design was aesthetically beautiful. In this case, if someone wants to get something out of the exhibit, they must neglect the aesthetics and look at my pictures.

  Georg Baselitz

  Beautiful, Design, Neglect

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• There's a market for art, and things are indeed going swimmingly, especially for German artists. But everything takes place in America and in London, where there are quite a few wealthy, engaged people. What motivates them to buy art is a different question, but they do.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, People, Different

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

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• A citizen sticks to conventions, does whatever is social. Artists, of course, must reject all conventions. I see no differently in reconciling the best of both of these worlds.

  Georg Baselitz

  Artista, Mundo

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• When Michael Werner saw a painting of mine, such as Die grosse Nacht im Eimer, which back then nobody wanted and everybody thought was ridiculous, he realized that this was the right provocation, that it represented the feeling of the times in the right way.

  Georg Baselitz

  Feelings, Ridiculous, Painting

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• 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

  Country, Talking, Museums

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

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• 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

  Fresh Start, Painting, Starting

  Georg Baselitz (2010). “Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews”

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