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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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Sigmar Polke
#Opportunity Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Luck Quotes
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“A negative is never finished.”
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Sigmar Polke
Source : 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
#Negative Quotes
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“As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.”
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Sigmar Polke
#Children Quotes
#Drawing Quotes
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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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Sigmar Polke
#Photography Quotes
#Art Quotes
#Children Quotes
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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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Sigmar Polke
#People Quotes
#Trying Quotes
#Painter Quotes
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“There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.”
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Sigmar Polke
#Risk Quotes
#Elements Quotes
#Risk-taking Quotes
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“When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.”
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Sigmar Polke
#Art Quotes
#Renaissance Quotes
#Young Quotes
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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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Sigmar Polke
#Fall Quotes
#Years Quotes
#Museums Quotes
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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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Sigmar Polke
#Drawing Quotes
#Sketchbooks Quotes
#Not Sure Quotes
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“What interests me is the unforeseeable.”
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Sigmar Polke
Source : David Thistlewood, Sigmar Polke (1996). “Sigmar Polke: Back to Postmodernity”, p.155, Liverpool University Press
#Interest Quotes
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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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Sigmar Polke
Source : 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
#Procedures Quotes
#Interest Quotes
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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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Sigmar Polke
#Photography Quotes
#Mean Quotes
#Differences Quotes
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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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Sigmar Polke
#Opportunity Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Luck Quotes
