Georg Baselitz Quotes

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

I need art around me always.

I just wanna be an artist, like someone like Bjork and Kate Bush and Regina Spektor. These are people that have saved people, I think, by being what they are.

I really don't own any jewelry. I paint it, but I'm not a consumer. I buy art - that's all I want.

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

I didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff, Jackson Pollack. He had an amazing collection. I didn't know people painted abstractly, I thought I was just doing something wholeheartedly.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run

Just remembering that they [people with eating disorder] are young, beautiful and unique and that is worth everything in this world.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.

Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.

And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad.

It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.