"A negative is never finished."

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Source : Sigmar Polke, Paul Schimmel, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), Site Santa Fe (Gallery), Corcoran Gallery of Art (1995). “Sigmar Polke: photoworks, when pictures vanish”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Sigmar Polke

#Negative Quotes

“Whoever makes something having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process (transferring some of his holdings for these cooperating factors), is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlements over them.”
“The kitchen is where you put all the ingredients together. The kitchen is where you prepare the plan and put your recipe together. No matter what you do in life, you have to have a plan and put it together.”
“In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.”
“Frankly, sex work and stripping is very good if you have radical politics. You can go to meetings all night long.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.”
“A generous action is its own reward.”
“People bring me homemade food, and I'm always kind of creeped out. That's definitely happened a few times on tour, and it's like, "There's no way that's getting eaten. That's getting put down as soon as you're out of my sight."”
“How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!”

Source : Thomas Cole, Louis Legrand Noble (1853). “The Course of Empire: Voyage of Life, and Other Pictures of Thomas Cole, N.A., with Selections from His Letters and Miscellaneous Writings: Illustrative of His Life, Character, and Genius”, p.81

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