A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.

You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself.

My definition of sexy is someone who is expressing themselves honestly.

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

You can't be too right too soon and win elections.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

The number one priority of President Trump is to rebuild our military, to restore the arsenal of democracy.

I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I've gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends... one time an angora sweater leaped right off my body.

He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.

Everyone can collect quotes, it's a bit different to write 10,000 original ones.