Sigmar Polke Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.
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You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.
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You wouldn't take me to be a Skrillex fan, but honestly, when I'm at his shows, I get high and liquored up, and I just go in the crowd and start raving.
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You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again.
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What's the most outrageous thing I've ever done? Let's just say I don't think I've done it yet. The most outrageous thing is yet to come.
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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We all live such digital lives, there is no reason why we should not import this into our company.
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It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.
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I just wanted to inspire people and I hope I did.
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Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit.
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Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.
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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.
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I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your experiments. How easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something.
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To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.
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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.
