Baselitz Artist Quotes & Sayings

I've gotten used to hoping for so little that I seem to have lost any natural immunity to the emotion's infection. — Barry Eisler

First and foremost one, I was never planning on doing this as a long term, so Spooky, I was in college ... It was a fun name. I thought it was you know just a fun thing — DJ Spooky

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. — Dennis Fakes

I'm aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I'd ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I've glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I've sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate. — Susan Jane Gilman

I get a good colour in summer but go really pale in winter, and it genuinely doesn't suit me, as people ask me if I'm ill. As well as making me look a bit better, I often have to be tanned in the middle of winter to do a show or programme, so I've road-tested every fake tan on the market. — Deirdre O'Kane

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies. — Tony Snow

There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no information, and his work cannot be used. It is the end product which counts. — Georg Baselitz

If I own stock in your company and you move offshore for tax reasons I'm selling your stock. There are enough investment choices here — Mark Cuban

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

You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling. — 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