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

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

- Georg Baselitz

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

- Georg Baselitz

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

- Georg Baselitz

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

- Georg Baselitz