MARTIN KIPPENBERGER

You don't make stupid jokes in art.

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

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.

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

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

A good artist has less time than ideas.

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

I am not an easel-kisser.

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

Nobody helps anybody.

I am not an easel-kisser.

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

Entertainment and art are not isolated.

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 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!.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

A good artist has less time than ideas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You don't make stupid jokes in art.

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