Zitat des Tages von Sigmar Polke:
The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.
Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.
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.
I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.
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.
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.
As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.
A negative is never finished.
When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.