Sigmar Polke Quotes & Sayings

17 most famous Sigmar Polke quotes and sayings (artist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“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.”

“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.”

“There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.”

“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.”

“A negative is never finished.”

“As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.”

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

“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.”