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I’m a believer in luck and th...

I’m a believer in luck and think the social conditions you’re born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I’ve been lucky.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

People expect things from art...

People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

When I came to the West, I sa...

When I came to the West, I saw many, many things for the first time. But I also saw the prosperity of the West critically. It wasn't really Heaven.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

I love all dots. I am married...

I love all dots. I am married to many of them. I want all dots to be happy. Dots are my brothers. I am a dot myself.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

The conventional definition o...

The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

Light is a metaphoric thing. ...

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

Mostly, drawings are things I...

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

By making pictures, you learn...

By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're both operating in the same reality. A face painted by Picasso occupies the same reality as a portrait by Stieglitz.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

We were very poor and my fami...

We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

I began drawing as a very you...

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

What interests me is the unfor...

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

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A negative is never finished....

A negative is never finished.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

I don't see a big difference b...

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

It's the procedures in and for...

It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

I'm a believer in luck and thi...

I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

Mostly, drawings are things I ...

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

Yes, my works... are enshrined...

Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

When I was young, I was intere...

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

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There has to be an element of ...

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

Picabia is a very old painter ...

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

Sigmar Polke 12 quotes

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