All German painters have a neurosis with Germany's past: war, the postwar period most of all, East Germany. I addressed all of this in a deep depression and under great pressure. My paintings are battles, if you will.
Georg BaselitzI love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.
Georg BaselitzAn object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.
Georg BaselitzI 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.
Georg Baselitz