Kippenberger Quotes

#1. A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.

Gillian Flynn

#2. It pains me to admit this, but Roger was a good sight less stupid than most children.

Heidi Schulz

#3. Music carries the weight of being human, takes it away so you don't have to think at all, you just have to listen. Music tells every story there is.

Estelle Laure

#4. The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.

Joseph Glanvill

#5. I am not an easel-kisser.

Martin Kippenberger

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

Martin Kippenberger

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

Martin Kippenberger

#8. What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.

Vance Havner

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

Martin Kippenberger

#10. 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

#11. I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

John Green

#12. 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

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

Martin Kippenberger

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

Martin Kippenberger

#15. Can I ... ?" There was a pause and my heart stuttered. "Can I just hold you? That's all ... that's all I want.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#16. The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

Stephen Malkmus

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

Martin Kippenberger

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

Martin Kippenberger

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

Martin Kippenberger

#20. Entertainment and art are not isolated.

Martin Kippenberger

#21. Look at those who have talked about you and doubted you. They are your inspirational reason to succeed.

Jon Jones

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

Martin Kippenberger

#23. The actor's tense, he's being taped and things are not falling naturally. That's what I hate about Boadway. I feel like I'm giving a whole lot for nothing. I like to capture things and hold them there and share them with the whole world.

Michael Jackson

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

Martin Kippenberger

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

Martin Kippenberger

#26. Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

Salman Rushdie