Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I did not always trust my teachers, because I found them too weak. I was looking for something that could take me in a new direction, for things that I could admire. And because it was so hard to find this, I became a sort of outsider. That's why I began to identify with the insane, "outsider" artists.

Georg Baselitz's Popular Quotes

You dig in and you find something.

- Georg Baselitz

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

- Georg Baselitz

I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fight…

- Georg Baselitz

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

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

- Georg Baselitz

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

- Georg Baselitz

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

- Georg Baselitz

As a human being, I am a citizen, but as an artist, I am asocial.

- Georg Baselitz

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

- Georg Baselitz