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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

Topics: Fact Important Itself Like Made Objects Rather Simple Things Unique Wood

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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

Topics: Admired Always Because Despised European Every Fact Father Generation Had In Fact Like Loved More Painting Paintings Precisely Were

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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

Topics: Able Admire Artists Been Blonde Blonde Hair Each Ends Enough German Hair Happens Myself Never Oddly Out Paint Painters Picture Pictures Portraits Too Up Whom Why Woman Work Work Out

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

~Georg Baselitz

Topics: Art Been Interested Never Through Unlike Vehicle World

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

~Georg Baselitz

Topics: About Always Asked Attacked Feel Painting

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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

Topics: Always Apparently Becomes Final Finished Fixed Goes Idea Out Painting Process Returns Statement Though Thought Thought Process Time Uncertainty Work Work Out Your

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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

Topics: Any Artist Attitude Consists Does He His Only Responsibility Responsible Role Social Work

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Artist

Born: January 23rd, 1938

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