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!.

Entertainment and art are not isolated.

You really can't bring about anything new with art.

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.

A good artist has less time than ideas.

What people will say about me then - or maybe not say - will be the only thing that finally counts.

Nobody helps anybody.

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

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!.

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood.

An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

I am not an easel-kisser.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Believe in yourself. You must do that which you think you cannot.

You never see a child die from education on TV. But make no mistake about it: children die from lack of education all the time. Children without an education are more likely to grow up to have HIV/AIDS. They're more likely to die in infancy or before the age of five.

Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid there werent a lot of options. Now youre overwhelmed with options.

Great vision communication usually means heartfelt messages are coming from real human beings.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

Celebrity is everything in this country.

I've seen so many people - loved ones and colleagues - who jump from one diet to the next, one exercise regimen to the next . I was trying to figure out what were some of the basic things that each of us can build into a lifestyle for good, instead of bouncing from one thing to the next.

If nothing is going well call your grandmother

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant Ive ever met.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

If you escape from people too often you wind up escaping from yourself.

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches. Pope Francis has come to renew the Catholic Church, and he has new air to renew the spiritual world. Now, Venezuela does not need mediation.

We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.