William Kentridge Quotes
- 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 a…
- I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.
- Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes.
- It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.
- I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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 by…