Martin Kippenberger Quotes & Sayings

You really can't bring about anything new with art. — Martin Kippenberger

I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures. — Martin Kippenberger

A good artist has less time than ideas. — Martin Kippenberger

What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood. — Martin Kippenberger

You don't make stupid jokes in art. — Martin Kippenberger

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. — Martin Kippenberger

Entertainment and art are not isolated. — Martin Kippenberger

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history. — Martin Kippenberger

I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exhausting enough always having to check up on what one is really doing!. — Martin Kippenberger

What people will say about me then - or maybe not say - will be the only thing that finally counts. — Martin Kippenberger

I am not an easel-kisser. — Martin Kippenberger

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures. — Martin Kippenberger

An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result. — Martin Kippenberger

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling. — Martin Kippenberger

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all. — Martin Kippenberger