The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It doesn't have to be an accurate drawing, but it has to stand for an observation, not something that… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world. — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It doesn't have… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral questions...in our… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened. — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
I'm interested in machines that make you aware of the process of seeing and aware of what you do when you construct the world… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew up in… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense. — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
