Sigmar Polke
Sigmar Polke
Sigmar Polkewas a German painter and photographer...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth13 February 1941
CountryGermany
Sigmar Polke quotes about
came saw time west
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.
mostly red
Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.
dots love
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.
advertising agency both occupies operating painted picasso portrait properties
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.
interested people pictures seem understand useful
I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.
interest
What interests me is the unforeseeable.
procedures interest
It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.
photography mean differences
I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.
drawing sketchbooks not-sure
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.
negative finished
A negative is never finished.
photography art children
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.
risk elements risk-taking
There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.
definition life mean
The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.