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A negative is never finished.
Sigmar Polke / Painter
Finished
Negative
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What interests me is the unforeseeable.
Sigmar Polke / Painter
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As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.
Sigmar Polke / Painter
Children
Drawing
Copied
Drawings
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When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.
Sigmar Polke / Painter
Art
Renaissance
Young
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There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.
Sigmar Polke / Painter
Elements
Risk
Risk-taking
Element
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The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.
Sigmar Polke / Painter
Conventional
Mean
Normal
Normal Life
Reality
Idea
Definition
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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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Interest
Procedures
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Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.
Sigmar Polke / Painter
Don't Care
Fall
Museums
Years
Apart
Enshrined
Yes
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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.
Sigmar Polke / Painter
Painter
People
Trying
Me People Try
Me People Old
Comparisons
Connect
Some People
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I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.
Sigmar Polke / Painter
Differences
Mean
Photography
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Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.
Sigmar Polke / Painter
Danger
Green
Red
Green Light
Mostly
Red Light
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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 / Painter
Happy
Married
Love Myself I Am
Be Happy
Brothers
Dot
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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 / Painter
Helping
Helping People
Ideas
Understand
Useful
Interested
People Ideas Never
Forth
Pictures
Seem
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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 / Painter
First Time
Heaven
Prosperity
West
Critically
Saw
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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.
Sigmar Polke / Painter
Art
Children
Drawing
Exposure
Grandfather
Photography
Young Child
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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.
Sigmar Polke / Painter
Opportunity
Luck
Thinking
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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 / Painter
Photographs
The Only Thing
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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.
Sigmar Polke / Painter
Drawing
Experiments
Not Sure
Sketchbooks
Sure
Drawings
Inner
Mental
Mostly
Private
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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 / Painter
Horrible
Museums
Expect
Places
Restrictive
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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 / Painter
Believer
Conditions
Identity
Luck
Prove
Social Conditions
War Family Home
Suppose
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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 / Painter
Advertising
Agency
Photography
Advertising Agency
Occupies
Operating
Painted
Picasso
Portrait
Properties
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