Martin Kippenberger Quotes

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

Entertainment and art are not isolated

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

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

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

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

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

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

You really can't bring about anything new with art

You don't make stupid jokes in art.

Nobody helps anybody.

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

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