Sigmar Polke Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.”

“Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.”

“The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”