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