Sigmar Polke

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.

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

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.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.