"The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse."

-- Georg Baselitz

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“Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a stew. You put all these various ingredients in it. You season it with this. You put that in it. You put the other in it. You mix it all up and it comes out something neat, something that you created.”
“From an early age, I never let anyone silence my voice. This steadfast attitude has helped me as an actor and has truly enabled me to explore and evolve the characters I portray on television and film.”
“Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.”
“It is maybe not the best choice to have a favorite anything.”
“I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.”

Source : Danny Lyon (2009). “Memories of myself: essays”, Phaidon Press
“The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.”

Source : Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press
“Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.”
“I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.”

Source : Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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