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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We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.
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I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
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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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When your private life has been dragged into public space, you tend to attain a zen-like composure.
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You can ask me anything you want; I'm very opinionated... except about my private life. I don't want to talk about that.
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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.
