Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Martin Kippenberger

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German artist Martin Kippenberger.

Last updated on April 21, 2025.

Martin Kippenberger was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona.

German - Artist | February 25, 1953 - March 7, 1997

Source: Wikipedia

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

Martin Kippenberger

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

Martin Kippenberger

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

Martin Kippenberger

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

I am not an easel-kisser.

Martin Kippenberger

Entertainment and art are not isolated.

Martin Kippenberger

A good artist has less time than 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 people will say about me then - or maybe not say - will be the only thing that finally counts.

Martin Kippenberger

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

Martin Kippenberger

Nobody helps anybody.

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 draws together to form a history.

Martin Kippenberger

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

Martin Kippenberger

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

Martin Kippenberger

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

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 draws together to form a history

Martin Kippenberger

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

Martin Kippenberger

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

Martin Kippenberger