When I'm making a collage, there are a lot of things about it that are violent. — Wangechi Mutu About Copy Share Image
Beautiful things can happen when you act intuitively and instinctively in a moment of anxiety and do something radical. — Wangechi Mutu Anxiety Copy Share Image
I do all I can to make my world a better place to live in for me and for my kids as… — Wangechi Mutu Better Copy Share Image
Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always… — Wangechi Mutu Body Copy Share Image
The ocean is the source of life. We all come from there. I think about these one-celled creatures, and I think about… — Wangechi Mutu Biology Copy Share Image
My work is often a therapy for myself - a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way… — Wangechi Mutu Black women Copy Share Image
I really believe in dreaming and making things from nothing. — Wangechi Mutu Believe Copy Share Image
In 'National Geographic,' you always saw pictures of tribal Africa. And here I am, sitting in Nairobi in our suburban house, watching… — Wangechi Mutu House Copy Share Image
And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of… — Wangechi Mutu Art Copy Share Image
I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for… — Wangechi Mutu Activist Copy Share Image
I am inspired and affected by Aspen, the light and the landscape and the natural world. — Wangechi Mutu Am Copy Share Image
There are ways to speak that can transform things, which has less to do with authority but is more about resourcefulness and… — Wangechi Mutu Authority Copy Share Image
I love magazines because they're so dispensable, and they're so quickly consumed. In that way, they're quite honest. They're unashamed about how… — Wangechi Mutu Attention Copy Share Image
Being taught to despise your body is being taught to perhaps admire someone else's body more than yours - being taught that… — Wangechi Mutu Admire Copy Share Image
In most cases I start off with a sketch. But I'm also thinking about real images: out of National Geographic, out of… — Wangechi Mutu Cases Copy Share Image
I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything. — Wangechi Mutu Change Copy Share Image
I watched a lot of avant-garde films, like Maya Deren's work, and I love film's technical ability to do things that are… — Wangechi Mutu Amazing Copy Share Image
While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it… — Wangechi Mutu Discouraged Copy Share Image
Born Free is an idea that came from a place of deep respect for the delicate cycle of life. How incredible to… — Wangechi Mutu Born free Copy Share Image
For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then… — Wangechi Mutu Madness Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm interested in is not just women but the female qualities that are present in everyone. — Wangechi Mutu Everyone Copy Share Image
The medium of film is really wonderful because it can behave in the same way as collage and painting; it can be… — Wangechi Mutu Cinema Copy Share Image
I use femaleness as another lens, so I don't even think all my creatures are women; I just think that I bring… — Wangechi Mutu Creatures Copy Share Image
Often, there's an emphasis in my work, and it's sort of the celebrating of the body. — Wangechi Mutu Body Copy Share Image
