Georg Baselitz Quotes

If I'm on my game it doesn't really matter about anybody else.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

All the people in the late '80s and early '90s were really hell-bent on doing something for themselves, and they wouldn't take no for an answer. There was a lot of determination, and I was definitely part of that way of thinking.

I don't need government to be successful.

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

Education is not something where you just tip your head and they pour it in your ear. You’ve got to want it.

Competitive people, especially in sports, want to learn about everything. So when you're interested in something, you become a bit obsessive. You start to research it and ask questions about it, and before you know it, you have a serious hobby because of how you're programmed.

When I found I could not figure something out, I decided to learn about it, until I knew as much as I could. It's my way.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

I don't want anything handed to me, I want to work for everything I have... that's the way I've done everything in my life.

One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.

The liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people – he is not an egalitarian – but he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people are.

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.

I do what I do because my favorite thing is to learn.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

My parents brought me up with this philosophy. You must do things. You mustn't watch what other people are doing. You must not listen to what other people are doing.

You can't lay back and wait for somebody else to do it. And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem.

People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.

I think we've always, as a species, been fascinated with stuff that we don't understand. Anytime someone can shed light on that, whether it's legit or just somebody's fantasy of what that stuff is, I think people take notice.