Georg Baselitz quotes

Georg Baselitz is a German artist renowned for his expressive, figurative paintings and sculptures. His work is famous for its bold techniques, including inverting subjects to challenge traditional perspectives. He has significantly influenced contemporary art and remains a leading figure in post-war European art. Here are 7 of his quotes:

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

Georg Baselitz

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

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

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 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 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