Georg Baselitz Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• 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

  Father, Europe, Generations

  Interview with Pamela Kort, michaelwerner.com. April 2003.

• 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

  Artist, Ideas, Work Out

  Georg Baselitz (2010). “Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews”

• In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking about me and my paintings. There are, after all, more popular painters in this country.

  Georg Baselitz

  Country, Talking, Museums

  "My Paintings are Battles". Interview with Susanne Beyer, Ulrike Knöfel, www.spiegel.de. January 25, 2013.

• When I began as an artist, I already did not like expressionism, or abstract expressionism, because abstract painting had already been done. I did not want to belong to any one group or the other, and I'm not one or the other.

  Georg Baselitz

  Artist, Done, Painting

• All German painters have a neurosis with Germany's past: war, the postwar period most of all, East Germany. I addressed all of this in a deep depression and under great pressure. My paintings are battles, if you will.

  Georg Baselitz

  War, Past, Battle

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

  Georg Baselitz

  Fresh Start, Painting, Starting

  Georg Baselitz (2010). “Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews”

• No one who looks at my paintings can see whether a painting is upside down or not anymore. I've made or developed so many image models that some people have given up trying to keep track of me. But others have only one or two ways of doing things and are successful with that.

  Georg Baselitz

  Successful, People, Track

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

  Georg Baselitz

  Painting, Upside Down, Objects

  Georg Baselitz (2010). “Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews”

• I don't paint over my paintings with black paint. I paint black paintings. It isn't because I'm sad, just as I didn't paint red paintings yesterday because I was happy. Nor will I paint yellow paintings tomorrow because I'm jealous.

  Georg Baselitz

  Jealous, Black, Tomorrow

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Spending money on art has always been frowned upon in this country - even earlier, when my and others' paintings cost almost nothing. Something is always more important. The people in charge are always peddling reasons that others seem to accept. Those who don't drink and aren't crazy, or who don't attract attention with how they behave in public, aren't noticed in art.

  Georg Baselitz

  Country, Art, Crazy

  "'My Paintings are Battles'". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Ulrike Knöfel, www.spiegel.de. January 25, 2013.

• I've painted, but I've also done graphics since as long as I can remember. So even people with little to spend could afford it. But even the graphic works are only bought by those who buy the big, expensive paintings. I think that's troublesome.

  Georg Baselitz

  Thinking, Long, People

  "'My Paintings are Battles'". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Ulrike Knöfel, www.spiegel.de. January 25, 2013.

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

  Georg Baselitz

  Painting, Feels

• Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without me having to demonstrate it.

  Georg Baselitz

  Painting, Painter

• My Paintings are Battles.

  Georg Baselitz

  Battle, Painting, Difficulty

• When Michael Werner saw a painting of mine, such as Die grosse Nacht im Eimer, which back then nobody wanted and everybody thought was ridiculous, he realized that this was the right provocation, that it represented the feeling of the times in the right way.

  Georg Baselitz

  Feelings, Ridiculous, Painting

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