Experience Quote by Chris Ofili

I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed…

— Chris Ofili

A lot of what Trinidad is about is the feeling of the place, the atmosphere of the place, particularly at night, and the mystery…

— Chris Ofili

I've always set out to embrace all that I am.

— Chris Ofili

I just hope that when black people look at me, they don't see someone superhuman. They see themselves.

— Chris Ofili

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…

— Chris Ofili

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close…

— Chris Ofili

I'm black, and it's a very important part of what I am. I'm not embarrassed about it.

— Chris Ofili

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…

— Chris Ofili

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…

— Chris Ofili

I wouldn't say even that I'm a broadly political person. But on occasion, I have felt that I have no choice but to paint…

— Chris Ofili

There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subject - in the Mastermind sense - and…

— Chris Ofili

I was brought up a Catholic and was an altar boy.

— Chris Ofili