To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of… — 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
