Georg Baselitz Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, World, Way

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

• 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

• Alfred Schnittke was an important contemporary composer, and he lived in Germany, but no one here has heard of him. Everyone has heard of Mozart, and many believe that he can still be found in that little house in Salzburg, which is why people stand there in line. I think that our music and our art belong to our era. If the public doesn't show up, it must be stupid.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Stupid, Believe

  "German Artist Georg Baselitz: 'My Paintings are Battles'". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Ulrike Knofel, www.spiegel.de. January 25, 2013.

• 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.

• I don't see art as entertainment.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art

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

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Eruption, Visceral

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• In the beginning, the energy involved to create came from my reaction to the work of other artists. The force behind this was aggression. The art that I saw was great, but I had to reject it, because I could not continue in the same direction. So I had to do something entirely different. It had to be so different, so extreme, that those who loved pop art, for instance, hated me. And this was my strength.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Energy, Different

• 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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