35 Quotes by Georg Baselitz

The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

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

What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.

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

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

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

Art is visceral and vulgar – it’s an eruption.