Georg Baselitz Quotes

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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, unpretentious.

Georg Baselitz

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

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

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

Georg Baselitz

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