Georg Baselitz Quotes

Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

One of the reasons I love making movies is because it's an opportunity to share with the world a different way of being or a different way of living or seeing the world. If it's something you've already seen before, if I have too many reference points for it, then it's not exciting for me to make.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

That's the thing about creating. When you create, you create your own thing, whatever that is. It's always going to seep through in whatever you do.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

Creative instinct is personal.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

Every stimulus becomes an opportunity to find fresh ways to express your personal vision.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

I definitely think that fashion is a form of art and love that people can express themselves through what they wear.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world.

I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and I can inspire people. I don't know what form that will take.