"What I could never escape was Germany, and being German."

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Source : Georg Baselitz, Norman Rosenthal (2007). “Baselitz”, Royal Academy of Art

Georg Baselitz

#Germany Quotes

“In her beauty rests (both) my death and my life.”
“It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.”
“Henry Ford made a lot of money making cars at one time, but that was a small advantage to him compared to the benefit to millions of people who for the first time in their lives were emancipated from common public carriers and could live where they wanted, move at the hours they wanted, to the places they wanted. Ford collected a billion bucks, but that was peanuts compared to the benefits.”
“We are the fingertips of blind illusion, You are the absolute Cause of causes.”
“Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news.”
“I can be a fairly hands-on editor, and when I'm editing someone I feel intensely invested in that writer and her work. I love helping to shape a book, and I feel very privileged to get to do that with writers I'm excited about. I think doing that work for the past six years has changed me, and it better prepared me for the questions and suggestions.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.”
“Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of a stream, catches a glimpse in the water of a white face or a moving limb and turns quickly away, refusing to help or to search for help. We all see the faces in the water. We smother our memory of them, even our belief in their reality, and become calm people of the world; or we can neither forget or help them. Sometimes by a trick of circumstances or dream or a hostile neighborhood of light we see our own face.”

Source : Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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