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7 quotes by Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz (photographed by Lothar Wolleh.) Georg Baselitz (born 23 January 1938) is a German painter. He studied in East Germany, before moving to what was then West Germany. Baselitz's style is interpreted by the Northern American critics[clarification needed] as Neo-Expressionist, but from a European perspective, it is more seen as postmodern.[citation needed] His career was boosted in the 1960s after police took action against one of his...
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I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though... →

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised... →

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

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

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