Martin Kippenberger Quotations

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

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

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

You really can't bring about anything new with art

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

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

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

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!.

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

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

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

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

Nobody helps anybody.

You don't make stupid jokes in art.

Entertainment and art are not isolated