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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.
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.
I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.
I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.
In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking about me and my paintings. There are, after all, more popular painters in this country.
My Paintings are Battles.
Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me nor the other usual suspects. It's simply a German reality.
What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.
The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns ... your thought process goes on.
I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do ... something that references tradition, but is still new.
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.
Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.
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.
