Chris Ofili Quotes

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• In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.
• I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.
• There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.
• When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to…
• I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that…
• Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have…
• Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to…
• The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way…
• There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subject - in the Mastermind sense - and I…
• When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be…
• The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is…

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