Citas de Georg Baselitz

• The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

  Georg Baselitz

  Actitud, Responsabilidad, Artista

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

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• I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

  Georg Baselitz

  Struggle, Fighting, Ideas

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

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Eruption, Visceral

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• A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

  Georg Baselitz

  Talent, Painter

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• 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”

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• 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

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• I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

  Georg Baselitz

  Exhibitions, Upside Down, Surface

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• The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.

  Georg Baselitz

  Realidad

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• 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.

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• I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

  Georg Baselitz

  Monsters, Want, Tradition

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• As a human being, I am a citizen, but as an artist, I am asocial.

  Georg Baselitz

  Artista

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• Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

  Georg Baselitz

  Past, Facts, Paint

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

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• You dig in and you find something.

  Georg Baselitz

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• I have always had the feeling that other people are too stupid to discover interesting things. That's why I do it myself. I think of collecting as a way to show that I understand what's important better than others do.

  Georg Baselitz

  Estúpido, Pensamiento, Gente

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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

  Unique, Simple, Important

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

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• 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.

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• 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”

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• The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

  Georg Baselitz

  Change, Artist, Ideas

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• 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

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• I did not always trust my teachers, because I found them too weak. I was looking for something that could take me in a new direction, for things that I could admire. And because it was so hard to find this, I became a sort of outsider. That's why I began to identify with the insane, "outsider" artists.

  Georg Baselitz

  Teacher, Artist, Insane

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• 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

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Recuerdo que Michael Werner me habló de un famoso coleccionista, y Michael concertó una cita para que nos conociéramos. Este hombre echó un vistazo a la habitación y a mis cuadros. Luego dijo: "Joven, ¿por qué hace estas cosas horribles? Mira por la ventana. Hay chicas guapas ahí fuera. Es primavera. Mira lo bonito que puede ser el mundo. Arruinarás tu salud fumando tanto y haciendo cosas tan torturantes".

  Georg Baselitz

  Hermosa, Chica, Bonita

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• What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.

  Georg Baselitz

  Alemania

  Georg Baselitz, Norman Rosenthal (2007). “Baselitz”, Royal Academy of Art

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• I don't see art as entertainment.

  Georg Baselitz

  Arte

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

  Georg Baselitz

  Painting, Feels

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