Polke Quotes & Sayings

It shouldn't take a life-changing event to spark change in your life. — Shaun Hick

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

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

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'. — Martin H. Fischer

I wandered into the kitchen with my beer cup still in hand. There was nothing worse than being alone at a party. Well, not true. Being alone and sober.

"Hey."

I turned and was actually happy to see Noah. At least I wouldn't be the lonely loser. "Hi."

He glanced at my still mostly full beer.

"I really hardly ever drink. My friend assumes if he puts a beer in my hand I'll drink it; if I don't, he does. I'm more or less his cupholder. — Renita Pizzitola

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

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

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

If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax. — Christian Louboutin

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

It was not possible for us to produce the same optimism and the same kind of humour or irony. Actually, it was not irony. Lichtenstein is not ironic but he does have a special kind of humour. That's how I could describe it: humour and optimism. For Polke and me, everything was more fragmented. But how it was broken up is hard to describe. — Gerhard Richter

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

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

What interests me is the unforeseeable. — Sigmar Polke

A negative is never finished. — Sigmar Polke

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger. — Sigmar Polke

Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion ... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work ... The sound man needs work to keep him sound, but the nervous invalid has an even greater need of work to draw him out of his isolation, and to stop the miseries of doubt and self-scrutiny, to win back self-respect and the support of fellowship. — Richard Clarke Cabot

I want to lay you on that bar and take my time peeling all of this lace off. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

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

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

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

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. — Eldridge Cleaver

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

We were all well-off, grown-as-fuck men, but you'd be surprised by how similar we were to a group of teenage girls sometimes. "And — Max Monroe

Americans live not by facts, but by a lengthy list of myths. — Dave Champion

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

The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love. — Shana Alexander

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

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

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

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

They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry — Bob Geldof

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress. — Gena Rowlands

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

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