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.
You dig in and you find something. - Georg Baselitz
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
A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.
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
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…
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 artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture. - Georg Baselitz
The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.
What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms. - Georg Baselitz
What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.
Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption. - Georg Baselitz
Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.
I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface. - Georg Baselitz
I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.
As a human being, I am a citizen, but as an artist, I am asocial. - Georg Baselitz
As a human being, I am a citizen, but as an artist, I am asocial.
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