Georg Baselitz Quotes about Painting

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

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”

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

Georg Baselitz

Painting, Feels

My Paintings are Battles.

Georg Baselitz

Battle, Painting, Difficulty

When I began as an artist, I already did not like expressionism, or abstract expressionism, because abstract painting had already been done. I did not want to belong to any one group or the other, and I'm not one or the other.

Georg Baselitz

Artist, Done, Painting

When Michael Werner saw a painting of mine, such as Die grosse Nacht im Eimer, which back then nobody wanted and everybody thought was ridiculous, he realized that this was the right provocation, that it represented the feeling of the times in the right way.

Georg Baselitz

Feelings, Ridiculous, Painting

Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without me having to demonstrate it.

Georg Baselitz

Painting, Painter