Martin Kippenberger Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: February 25, 1953 - March 7, 1997

Topics

HistoryStylePersonalityTogether

Germany has become a country that many people abroad associate with hope.

Angela Merkel

HopePeopleCountryBecomeAbroad

The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.

John Shelby Spong

HeroPartySayWayOverJewish

If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in fact, the most banal and naive cliches dug out of second-rate movements of the late 19th century.

John Ralston Saul

LiveGreatDemocracyYouLateNaive

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

Steven Biko

LifePositiveAttitudeTimeMind

The thing that probably trips me up the most are people getting tattoos of stuff that I've designed in my books. That always spins me out in a weird way. It seems like such a permanent commitment to something I've done. I don't know that I could do that for anyone else.

Jonathan Hickman

CommitmentPeopleMeWeirdKnowWay

There's a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented - you can't experience that anywhere else. When you mess up, you mess up obviously, when you sweat, you sweat obviously, when you cry, you cry obviously. There's no hiding in theater.

Allison Mack

RelationshipExperienceRealityYou

It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.

Alicia Sacramone

PerspectiveComebackBodyMoreRight

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

William Hazlitt

PoetOnlyPlayerEnvies

Luxury cannot afford to intimidate.

Priya Sachdev

LuxuryCannotIntimidateAfford

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.

Scott Stossel

SchoolMeHigh SchoolAnxietyLose

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

Thomas Steinbeck

JobHumanityNewWayWriteHandle

I feel like I have a bit of a Type A personality.

Leslie Jamison

PersonalityFeelI Feel LikeLike

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