Georg Baselitz

“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 paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with...”

“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.”