Martin Kippenberger Quotes on Art

Martin Kippenberger was a famous German painter and conceptual artist. He is best known for his controversial and sometimes shocking works in a variety of media and styles. Famous Martin Kippenberger artworks include “Martin, into the Corner, You Should Be Ashamed of Yourself (Martin, ab in die Ecke und schäm Dich)”, “The Raft of the Medusa”, “Alcohol Torture”, “Dialogue with Youth”, “Tits, Towers, Tortelli (Titten, Türme, Tortellini)”, “Mother of Joseph Beuys”, “Feet First (Zuerst die Füße)”, and “Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika’”.

Mini biography: Born Martin Kippenberger on the 25th of February, 1953 in Dortmund, West Germany. The artist died on the 7th of March, 1997 in Vienna, Austria at the age of 44 from liver cancer. He was buried in Jennersdorf, Austria.

List of Famous Martin Kippenberger Art Quotes

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

I realized that not having a style is also a style, and then I pursued this style. Martin Kippenberger

When everything is good, none of it counts. God, in the beginning, wanted that a bit differently. Both good and bad were supposed to exist. But contrasts and dialectic have disappeared in art. Martin Kippenberger

A Good artist has less time than ideas. Martin Kippenberger

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

You really can’t bring about anything new with art. I knew that already as a child. One can try to change the world for oneself, but exhibitions are, actually, quite superfluous. Martin Kippenberger

Art is nothing like film. You can’t at all think of it as big business; it’s always a kind of ‘one-man business.’ 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

Life wasn’t so wonderful, so something more wonderful had to be made to happen. I’m kitsch, so art might just as well leave me alone. 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

Martin Kippenberger Self Portrait Painting

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