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German painter and photographer (d. 2010), Birth: 13-2-1941
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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

2.
It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.
Sigmar Polke

3.
What interests me is the unforeseeable.
Sigmar Polke

4.
I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.
Sigmar Polke

5.
Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.
Sigmar Polke

Similar Authors: Winston Churchill Francis Bacon John Ruskin Leonardo da Vinci William Blake Henry Miller Pablo Picasso Vincent Van Gogh Karl Lagerfeld Andy Warhol Alan Moore David Hockney Henri Matisse Samuel Richardson Robert Genn
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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

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A negative is never finished.
Sigmar Polke

8.
Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.
Sigmar Polke

Quote Topics by Sigmar Polke: Photography Children Interest Drawing Art Sketchbooks Painter Not Sure People Fall Young Differences Risk Luck Thinking Negative Trying Museums Renaissance Years Mean Risk-taking Procedures Elements Opportunity Finished
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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

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

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

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As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.
Sigmar Polke