Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep..

A topic is not interesting enough until it is multi layered. There is no vigor in a motive without many layers. One also learns quite a lot when one ….

I had a choice. I could become an economist & managing director. I choose to do something else. I would have become much, much richer than I am. I ch….

I have always been astonished by hate. Revenge and hate. That is such strange human elements. I have seen a lot of that in my life. I am just as surp….

To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have….

I believe one must be such a big egoist that it is possible to avoid the big tendencies that cut of your head. What we call fascism and things like t….

The point is that only one thing matters in this world, to prepare oneself for death. One can try to be as comfortable as possible until one dies... ….

I believe in positive despotism. That means an exchange between people. I'm thinking about the fact that someone serves me breakfast in my bed. I can….

Talking about success in society, no one can complain, because today everyone can choose what he or she wants. They don't just have to choose between….

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion..

Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art historian. When the artist produces somethin….

One talks much more about the evil than about the good. That is a paradox. We should only talk about the good to lighten up our existence. Chase anxi….

Everything is a meaningless struggle against nothing and when people say that the world has become a better place that is a false development-optimis….

When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success. If one chooses to become an artist it is 99% certain that it will go t….

The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. ….

Desire is something very egoistic. If you desire something, you also have to take the consequences of that. You have to study the market and see how ….

I have no ideals. I have no will that the world should be any better or worse or anything... Because I know that for every genius there exists a robb….

If a girl is in love with a poor guy and chooses him, then that is worst for her. If she chooses a rich man, it will be to her advantage. Everything ….

Art is a car, kitsch is a horse..

If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse..

We are all kitsch on our deathbeds..