Martin Kippenberger
Martin Kippenberger
Martin Kippenbergerwas 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...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth25 February 1953
CountryGermany
art color entertainment
Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
art color entertainment
Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
cut ear exhausting gogh mozart van
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!.
people trying consoling
I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
style roles assuming
Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.
art ideas people
I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.
people
What people will say about me then - or maybe not say - will be the only thing that finally counts
art
You really can't bring about anything new with art
people able good-mood
What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood
personality decision style
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
ideas deals salesman
I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.
helping
Nobody helps anybody.
artist chance results
An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.
art stupid stupid-jokes
You don't make stupid jokes in art.