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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.

~Sigmar Polke

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Artist

Born: February 13th, 1941

Died: June 10th, 2010

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