Baselitz Art Quotes & Sayings

You're mine. My obsession. My dreams. My hope. My heart. — Katy Evans

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more. — Georg Baselitz

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms. — Georg Baselitz

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption. — Georg Baselitz

If you go to a film festival and watch a bunch of features and then watch a bunch of shorts, you will almost always find that the shorts are where people are taking more risks and pushing more boundaries ... simply because they have much less to lose. — Don Hertzfeldt

Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems — Andrea Jones

Truth is beauty; beauty truth and that is all you need to know — John Keats

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto. — Georg Baselitz

Your team may be called "quality assurance." Don't let that go to your head. Your test results and bug reports provide information that facilitates the assurance of quality on the project, but that assurance results from the effort of the entire team. — Cem Kaner

Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him - thirsting, hungering, seeking! And the great sinners came closer to Him than the proud intellectuals! Pride swells and inflates the ego; gross sinners are depressed, deflated and empty. They, therefore, have room for God. God prefers a loving sinner to a loveless 'saint'. Love can be trained; pride cannot. The man who thinks that he knows will rarely find truth; the man who knows he is a miserable, unhappy sinner, like the woman at the well, is closer to peace, joy and salvation than he knows. — Fulton J. Sheen

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