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

Quote by Georg Baselitz

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German painter known for his unique artistic style and reflections on German history. Baselitz's works often blend abstract and representational elements, characterized by strong colors and bold compositions. more

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“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.”

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Book:Baselitz, paintings 1960-83

Source: Baselitz, paintings 1960-83

“I'm not going to disrespect you, don't disrespect me.”

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“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.”

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Book:Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews

Source: Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews

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

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Book:Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews

Source: Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews

“Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.”

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“You dig in and you find something.”

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

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Book:Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews

Source: Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews

“The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.”

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Book:Towards the immaterial

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“My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.”

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“As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work.”

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Book:Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial

Source: Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial