Top 12 Quotes by Sigmar Polke

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

Interest

David Thistlewood, Sigmar Polke (1996). “Sigmar Polke: Back to Postmodernity”, p.155, Liverpool University Press

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

Procedures, Interest

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

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

Sigmar Polke

Photography, Mean, Differences

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

Drawing, Sketchbooks, Not Sure

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

Sigmar Polke

Fall, Museums, Years

A negative is never finished.

Sigmar Polke

Negative, Finished

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

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

Opportunity, Thinking, Luck