Georg Baselitz

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

#wisdom #art

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

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

— Georg Baselitz

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

— 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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