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Sigmar Polke (13 February 1941 – 10 June 2010) was a German painter and photographer.

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

Element, Elements, Risk, Risk-Taking, Work

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.

Drawing, Mental, Not Sure, Private, Sketchbooks

A negative is never finished.

Finished, Negative

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

Interest, Necessary, Picture, Procedures

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

Art, Renaissance, Young

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

Painter, People, Refuse, Trying

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

Care, Enshrined, Fall, Museums, Years, Yes

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.

Conditions, Luck, Opportunity, Social, Think, Thinking

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

Interest, Interests, Unforeseeable

As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.

Bruegel, Child, Children, Copied, Drawing, Duerer

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

Differences, Distinctions, Mean, Nothing, Painting, Photography

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.

Art, Child, Children, Exposure, Grandfather, Photography