10 Quotes by Odd Nerdrum

Art is a car, kitsch is a horse.

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 will be fine.

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

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

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. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.

We are all kitsch on our deathbeds.

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 to hell. So you should not become that. If you study economics on Oslo, 99% of all students will do very well and 1% will reach the top.

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

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 has been working on a difficult painting. That is my feeling. I believe that.