Sigmar Polke Quotes

You can't die with an unfinished book.

Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.

Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete.

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

In my heart, I'm so far from done.

Last guys don't finish nice.

As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.

My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

I feel there's everything to do yet.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

I don't want to leave anything offstage.

Everything is only a dream.

Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.

if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.

Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.

Life, what is it but a dream?

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.