Sigmar Quotes

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me. ~ Sigmar Polke

By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're both operating in the same reality. A face painted by Picasso occupies the same reality as a portrait by Stieglitz. ~ Sigmar Polke

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

As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel. ~ Sigmar Polke

What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

The stubborn stance of some European governments on the refugee question is a reprisal less aimed at Angela Merkel or (Vice Chancellor) Sigmar Gabriel than at certain people on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin. ~ Martin Schulz

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. ~ Sigmar Polke

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth. ~ Sigmar Polke

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

It was as if he (Sigmar Polke) painted his imagery in a highly wrought way, instead of a calculatedly dumb way, or mechanical way, by silk-screening or by tracing from epidiascope projections, and so on. ~ Matthew Collings

Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

We need a greening of globalisation. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing. ~ Sigmar Polke

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

We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development of sustainable energy and it would cost jobs. The SPD is the strongest among the opposition parties and we must take on this role with vigour. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

Besides Germany, the only countries that don't have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it's a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky. ~ Sigmar Polke

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

A world of death is a world of stagnation, without the change that makes it worthwhile. What you call uncertainty, I call life itself. ~ Graham McNeill

Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us. ~ Sigmar Polke

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too. ~ Sigmar Gabriel

When I came to the West, I saw many, many things for the first time. But I also saw the prosperity of the West critically. It wasn't really Heaven. ~ Sigmar Polke

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art. ~ Sigmar Polke

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