Martin Kippenberger Quotes

I am not an easel-kisser.

Martin Kippenberger

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• I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Always
  • Spiritual
  • Warrior

• With liberalisation, Indian industry gained international exposure because of which it became imperative for companies to rework their strategies to become globally competitive.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Because
  • Industry
  • Become

• The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • First
  • Accept

• I voted for you during your last election.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • You
  • Election
  • Last

• Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Simple
  • Quality
  • Environment

• I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

  

  Om Puri
  • Good
  • Working
  • Cinema

• The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Tree

• The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Working
  • Line
  • Destination

• My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Name
  • Lightning
  • Bolt

• France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Home

• There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Understanding
  • End
  • Argument

• Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Experience
  • Human

• During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Power
  • Space
  • Walk

• Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Great
  • Powerful
  • Scenery

• For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

  

  Xenophon
  • Done
  • Understanding
  • Beauty

• Import and substituting imports with domestic production are a big opportunity. With a devaluation of the rupee, imports get expensive, and for Indian manufacturers, this creates a huge opportunity.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Opportunity
  • Big
  • Expensive

• There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Question
  • Sin
  • Seeing

• 'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened to records on, and where I actually really first fell in love with music.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Records
  • Street

• Perfect the Will, the Mind, Feeling, their corporeal organs and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others; and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself.

  

  Bolesław Prus
  • Perfect
  • Happiness
  • Tools

• Having it all means different things to different people. I think it's an individual choice. Nothing is perfect. Everyone makes sacrifices. For me, it's worked out well. I have children. I have a very interesting career. But it's not for everybody.

  

  Renee James
  • People
  • Different
  • Children

• When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Money
  • Art

• Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Black
  • Rock
  • Chance

• Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Bitter
  • Breaths
  • Foe

• I am not an easel-kisser.

  

  Martin Kippenberger