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

- Sigmar Polke

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

- Sigmar Polke

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

- Sigmar Polke

A negative is never finished.

- Sigmar Polke

It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.

- Sigmar Polke

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

- Sigmar Polke

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

- Sigmar Polke

As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.

- Sigmar Polke

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.

- Sigmar Polke