Martin Kippenberger Quotes

#1. I am not an easel-kisser.

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#2. You don't make stupid jokes in art.

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

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

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#5. 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!.

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#6. 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.

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#7. I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

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

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

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

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

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#12. Entertainment and art are not isolated.

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

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#14. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

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#15. A good artist has less time than ideas.

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