Explore Quotes by Georg Baselitz

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

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.

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.

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

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.

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.

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.

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.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.