"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

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“Chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent is doing. You have to be smart. But whatâ€™s the difference between chess and boxing? In chess, nobody is an expert, but everybody plays. In boxing everybody is an expert, but nobody fights.”
“Your future is only as bright as your mind is open.”
“Modernity is the most transient of qualities.”
“The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down”
“I've faced worse than a dressmaker who breaths fire.”

Source : Jessica Day George (2012). “Dragonskin Slippers”, p.121, A&C Black
“I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity.”
“Whenever someone comes up to me and says, 'I'm having trouble shopping.' I tell them to pull out their 10 favorite, most-worn pieces, then build a wardrobe around them. Those staples are going to be different for everybody.”
“It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.”

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