Sigmar Polke Quotes

• What interests me is the unforeseeable.

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  Interest

  David Thistlewood, Sigmar Polke (1996). “Sigmar Polke: Back to Postmodernity”, p.155, Liverpool University Press

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

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  Procedures, Interest

  Sigmar Polke, Martin Hentschel, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwartskunst (1997). “Sigmar Polke: the three lies of painting”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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

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  Photography, Mean, Differences

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• 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.

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  Drawing, Sketchbooks, Not Sure

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

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  Fall, Museums, Years

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• A negative is never finished.

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  Negative, Finished

  Sigmar Polke, Paul Schimmel, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), Site Santa Fe (Gallery), Corcoran Gallery of Art (1995). “Sigmar Polke: photoworks, when pictures vanish”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

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• 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.

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  Opportunity, Thinking, Luck

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

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  Risk, Elements, Risk-taking

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• 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.

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  Photography, Art, Children

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

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  Art, Renaissance, Young

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• As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.

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  Children, Drawing

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

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  People, Trying, Painter

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