Artist Quotes by Martin Kippenberger

I am not an easel-kisser.

— Martin Kippenberger

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

— Martin Kippenberger

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

— Martin Kippenberger

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

— Martin Kippenberger

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole…

— Martin Kippenberger

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

— Martin Kippenberger

Nobody helps anybody.

— Martin Kippenberger

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

— Martin Kippenberger

You don't make stupid jokes in art.

— Martin Kippenberger

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

— Martin Kippenberger

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

— Martin Kippenberger

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

— Martin Kippenberger

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

— Martin Kippenberger

You really can't bring about anything new with art

— Martin Kippenberger

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

— Martin Kippenberger