“I became an artist because of the possibility it gave me to develop in another way, because I didn't want to follow the same lines the others around me did. I was educated in the former German Democratic Republic, which meant that an individual figure had to be... like a soldier in the army.” ArtistIndividualPossibilityArmyDemocraticSoldierEducated Author:Georg Baselitz
“I have always been aware of different movements and directions in art. But, in general, I'm always bored by any kind of generalization when it comes to artists. I think that there are just single individuals, who are valuable, and they work outside of any group.” ThinkingKindArtDifferentArtistIndividualWork OutValuableBored Author:Georg Baselitz
“I am not a representative of anything. When art historians or critics or the public put somebody in a drawer like this, it has a tranquilizing, paralyzing effect. Artists are individuals. They have ideas, and the conventions for one's self as an individual are not for a group. There are always those who follow the group, but they belong in the margins. I refuse to be placed within, or added to, one particular school.” ArtSchoolArtistIndividualCriticsHistorian Author:Georg Baselitz
