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

Sigmar Polke

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Sigmar Polke
Age: 69 †
Born: 1941
Born: February 13
Died: 2010
Died: June 23
Designer
Graphic Artist
Installation Artist
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Oels
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Procedures
Picture
Necessary
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What interests me is the unforeseeable.
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Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.
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