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.
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.
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.