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

~Sigmar Polke

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As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.

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

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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.

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A negative is never finished.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Artist

Born: February 13th, 1941

Died: June 10th, 2010

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