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Martin Kippenberger
German
Artist
About the author
Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
Martin Kippenberger,
German
Artist
#Art
#Entertainment
A good artist has less time than ideas.
Martin Kippenberger,
German
Artist
#Time
#Ideas
#Artist
Entertainment and art are not isolated.
Martin Kippenberger,
German
Artist
#Art
#Entertainment
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,
German
Artist
I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
Martin Kippenberger,
German
Artist
#People
#Trying
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,
German
Artist
#Style
#History
#Actions
#Decisions
#Facts
#Personality
What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood.
Martin Kippenberger,
German
Artist
#People
What people will say about me then - or maybe not say - will be the only thing that finally counts.
Martin Kippenberger,
German
Artist
#People
#Will
You really can't bring about anything new with art.
Martin Kippenberger,
German
Artist
#Art
Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.
Martin Kippenberger,
German
Artist
#Style
#Work
Nobody helps anybody.
Martin Kippenberger,
German
Artist