Kippenberger Artist Quotes & Sayings

The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn't working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn't working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich businessmen owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it. — Assata Shakur

The most important thing is not victory, the most important thing is don't get defeated. — Rickson Gracie

Alone. The saddest word in the world. — Beatrice Sparks

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

The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made. — Leah Hager Cohen

The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it. — Jonathan Culver

He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman. — J.M. Barrie

When you are raised to believe that anything having to do with sex is forbidden and taboo, then of course that's all you want to know about. That becomes your complete and utter fascination. That is the surest way to interest a child. — Madonna Ciccone

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. — Abraham Lincoln

We are not great, but we will have moments of greatness. — Kim Kailuweit

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here. — Payne Stewart

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