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• I don't see art as entertainment.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art

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• Most of arts what comes from the States to Europe has something to do with entertainment. I can't imagine artists in the United States having the same kind of isolated position that we have here in Europe. I have a feeling one lives more publically in the States.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Feelings, Kind

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• My Paintings are Battles.

  Georg Baselitz

  Battle, Painting, Difficulty

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• I am not a representative of anything. When art historians or critics or the public put somebody in a drawer like this, it has a tranquilizing, paralyzing effect. Artists are individuals. They have ideas, and the conventions for one's self as an individual are not for a group. There are always those who follow the group, but they belong in the margins. I refuse to be placed within, or added to, one particular school.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, School, Individual

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• As an artist, I have been a risk-taker. And I've done a lot of different things. I don't make it easy for people. Identification is difficult. One doesn't recognize my art right away.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, People, Different

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

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• 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

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• Despite all the taxes people pay, there supposedly isn't any money in this country for art. Of course, this makes an artist ask himself: "Well, then, what are you doing with the 100 million I pay each year? What happened to that money?" And he doesn't get an answer.

  Georg Baselitz

  Country, Art, People

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

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• I do not have a philosophy about retrospectives. Of course, I cannot change what I have done. What I am doing today, this I can change, in view of whatever I have done before. My retrospectives are like a series of ghosts.

  Georg Baselitz

  Philosophy, Done, Today

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• I started collecting my artist friends, artists like myself who nobody had yet noticed. In everything, all I am collecting, so to speak, are my friends - artist friends.

  Georg Baselitz

  Artist, Speak

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• I was always on the outside. It was the worst when I still wanted to be a professor, having to deal with colleagues and students, and having to listen to all that academic nonsense. It's really just a haze that keeps them busy. But all of that is fortunately over now, once and for all.

  Georg Baselitz

  Students, Busy, Nonsense

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

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• 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.

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• I have always been aware of different movements and directions in art. But, in general, I'm always bored by any kind of generalization when it comes to artists. I think that there are just single individuals, who are valuable, and they work outside of any group.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Thinking, Work Out

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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 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

  Art, Hair, Work Out

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• In a place like the Guggenheim, I would like to be a representative of arte povera. This would be my ideal.

  Georg Baselitz

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• I became an artist because of the possibility it gave me to develop in another way, because I didn't want to follow the same lines the others around me did. I was educated in the former German Democratic Republic, which meant that an individual figure had to be... like a soldier in the army.

  Georg Baselitz

  Army, Artist, Soldier

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• I don't know who made up this sort of greatest-hits list for artists. If one artist isn't moving forward anymore, then it's assumed another one is going to take their place. With Francis Bacon's death, a whole genre of art died.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Moving, Moving Forward

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• Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Believe, Play

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

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, World, Vehicle

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

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• There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no information, and his work cannot be used. It is the end product which counts.

  Georg Baselitz

  Communication, Artist, Information

  Georg Baselitz, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum (1983). “Baselitz, paintings 1960-83”

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• Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me nor the other usual suspects. It's simply a German reality.

  Georg Baselitz

  Country, Reality, Museums

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• 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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• 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

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• There's a market for art, and things are indeed going swimmingly, especially for German artists. But everything takes place in America and in London, where there are quite a few wealthy, engaged people. What motivates them to buy art is a different question, but they do.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, People, Different

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

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• I think the defect actually lies with male artists. Male artists often border on idiocy, while it's important for a woman not to be that way, if possible. Women are outstanding in science, just as good as men.

  Georg Baselitz

  Lying, Artist, Men

  "Georg Baselitz Is a Sexist Grump". SPIEGEL Interview, hyperallergic.com. January 30, 2013.

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