Kippenberger Martin Quotes & Sayings

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

If you ask the typical two- or three-year-old or a teenager what a robot is, they will think about a humanoid that does my homework for me or walks the dog. When I go and talk to kids and pull out the Roomba, it's not this big 'Wow!' moment. — Colin Angle

He must be from a very friendly part of the Milky Way, — Jandy Nelson

When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiritual things appear out of place; in order to be able to declare successfully that God is unreal they have to construct around man a false reality, a reality that is inevitably inhuman because only the inhuman can exclude God. What is involved is a falsification of the imagination and so its destruction. — Frithjof Schuon

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

Entertainment and art are not isolated. — 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

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

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

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

I am not an easel-kisser. — Martin Kippenberger

Kenneth Branagh. There was a time in my life when people would tell me constantly that I look like him. I could do a lot worse than that. — Jonathan Dee

But I was afraid I'd have to give up on an ideal explanation of her past life. Oh well, there didn't have to be one necessarily. — Saul Bellow

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

No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her. — Adriana Trigiani

Paper is patient; authors never are.) At — Nina George

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

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

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

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones. — Agnes Smedley

People are in your life for a reason, others are there for a season and it's important to realize when those seasons are over. — Tyrese Gibson

We're living or dying. We're already dead, the living dead. So do what you gotta do. Take care of your family, of yourself as a whole, and everything will be alright. — Schoolboy Q

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

Hang on. This Lord Voldything's back you say? ... and now he's sending dismembers after you? ... I see. Well that settles it, YOU CAN GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE BOY! — J.K. Rowling

Taking care a white babies, that's what I do, along with all the cooking and the cleaning. I done raised seventeen kids in my lifetime. I know how to get them babies to sleep, stop crying, and go in the toilet bowl before they mamas even get out a bed in the morning. — Kathryn Stockett

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

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

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege. — David Geffen