Polke Quotes

#1. It was as if he (Sigmar Polke) painted his imagery in a highly wrought way, instead of a calculatedly dumb way, or mechanical way, by silk-screening or by tracing from epidiascope projections, and so on.

Matthew Collings

#2. When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

Wolfgang Tillmans

#3. Because I was traveling a lot during the '70s, the only thing I could do on the road was take photographs, so there wasn't much painting during those years.

Sigmar Polke

#4. As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.

Sigmar Polke

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

Sigmar Polke

#6. 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

#7. A negative is never finished.

Sigmar Polke

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

Sigmar Polke

#9. 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

#10. I think journalism anywhere should be based on social justice and impartiality, making contributions to society as well as taking responsibility in society. Whether you are capitalist or socialist or Marxist, journalists should have the same professional integrity.
Tan Hongkai

Judy Polumbaum

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

Sigmar Polke

#12. This is not a game, you horrible man,' Mr. Poe said. 'Dominos is a game. Water polo is a game. Murder is a crime, and you will go to jail for it. I will drive you to the police station in town right this very minute.

Lemony Snicket

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

Sigmar Polke

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

Sigmar Polke

#15. More traffic means more advertising dollars.

Jeff Zucker

#16. I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.

Geraldine Brooks

#17. You get more out of doing a web series than a pilot, in some ways, especially when we were interviewing for writers. They had already seen what our show looked like, rather than something that we wrote that doesn't get picked up and they never see it.

Jillian Bell

#18. 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

#19. If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.

Thomas Hardy

#20. What interests me is the unforeseeable.

Sigmar Polke

#21. 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

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

Sigmar Polke

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

Sigmar Polke

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

Sigmar Polke

#25. Live with grace and dignity. It's a middle finger to the darkness

Jamie Tworkowski

#26. We don't man-mark anybody. I have never, ever done it in 27 years as a manager and I would never do it,

John Toshack

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#30. 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

#31. I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.

Sigmar Polke