Quotes by 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.
• I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.
• Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.