Entertainment and art are not isolated
Interpretation
Entertainment and art are interconnected and influence one another.
The quote by Martin Kippenberger suggests that entertainment and art are fundamentally linked, each drawing from and enriching the other. This interdependence highlights the significance of creativity and expression in various forms, stressing that art should not be viewed as a solitary endeavor but rather as part of a broader cultural dialogue that includes entertainment.
In practice
In a speech at an art gallery opening, one might use this quote to highlight the importance of interactive art.
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with people, comes your ideology, comes your hate, comes your love - all together in this fraction of a second, it materializes there.
I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.
The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.
I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of comfort and adventure. An excellent mixture!
I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
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