Martin Kippenberger quotes:

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!.

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!."

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.

Entertainment and art are not isolated

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

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

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

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.

Nobody helps anybody.

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

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

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

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

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

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

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

You don't make stupid jokes in art.

You really can't bring about anything new with art