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

Entertainment and art are not isolated.
Martin Kippenberger

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
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'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
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

Nobody helps anybody.
Martin Kippenberger

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

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

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