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Quotes by Artist
"These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off."
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"But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest."
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"I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight."
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"I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature."
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"I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature."
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"I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art."
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"I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger."
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"I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should."
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"If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight."
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"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."
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"What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood."
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"Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
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"I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me."
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"Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death."
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"Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science."
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"A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things."
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"Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mission."
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"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures."
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"I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling."
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"When you are young and without success you have only a few friends. Then later on when you are rich and famous you still have a few ... if you are lucky."
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"God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things."
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"Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work."
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"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."
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"Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist."
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"Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life."
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"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."
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"Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny."
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"No language is rude that can boast polite writers."
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"It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten."
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