Martin Kippenberger Quotes

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

I like people that challenge their art, not only in the purist way, but also in terms of how they could provoke and make something different.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself.

I just don't want to make the same old movies. I'm not interested in it. Directing's hard. It takes up a lot of your life, and I'm not that interested in making the same old film.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I love to work with artists that were able to find a brand new name and create something really exciting and fresh.

Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.

I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.