the rich complexity of souls (11 December 2016)

Georg Baselitz, Ohne Hosen in Avignon, 2014


It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.

- Hector Berlioz

Georg Baselitz, Fortuna, 2010 & Untitled, 2011

Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art - and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Georg Baselitz, With Harmonica, too (Auch mit Harmonika), 2015 

Georg Baselitz,  Fire! A Song (Feuer! Ein Lied), 2015  

Georg Baselitz,  Yesterday Wagner today Bach (Gestern Wagner heute Bach), 2014


The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn