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

Sigmar Polke

#3. People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.

Idries Shah

#4. 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

#5. In a word, to comport oneself with perfect propriety in Polygonal society, one ought to be a Polygon oneself. Such at least is the painful teaching of my experience.

Edwin A. Abbott

#6. The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.

Tim Cook

#7. What people do at tables." Strong hands held my legs apart. "Eating.

Kylie Scott

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

Sigmar Polke

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

Sigmar Polke

#10. 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

#11. A negative is never finished.

Sigmar Polke

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

Sigmar Polke

#13. 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

#14. You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.

Che Guevara

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

Sigmar Polke

#16. If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Sigmar Polke

#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. What interests me is the unforeseeable.

Sigmar Polke

#20. 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

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

Sigmar Polke

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

Sigmar Polke

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

Sigmar Polke

#24. My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

Georges Rouault

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

John Gay