Art Quote by Wangechi Mutu Download Open image “I would like to make work for my country, art which is innately Kenyan by being made in Kenya.” — Wangechi Mutu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Being Country Like Work
Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British, and when we were colonized and violently reshuffled, we had to decide who we were again. We couldn't rest on the stories and the cultures of our great-grandparents. — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share
I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
I don't want to just be an artist for one country, I want to produce for the world. — Martin Garrix Copy Share Image
Of course it's very, very important for me to feel Kenya, to feel, every day, this is where images come from. So to be… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are… — Ozwald Boateng Copy Share Image
My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be able to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
We Kenyans have a lot of talent. It's just that we don't have scouts going there. I hope I will raise the profile so… — Victor Wanyama Copy Share Image
I would like to work in any country in an interesting project. The country is not so important. — Tomas Lemarquis Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
We have to redefine what we mean when we say, 'Who are your people?' 'Where are you from?' — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
I keep things moving along with a seriously loving, caring, and brilliant man, a fierce group of friends - and really strong coffee. — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
I've always been curious about the things that I'm afraid to look at, that make me embarrassed or bother me. — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
I feel like I've spent a lot of time imagining home and thinking about a dream-like place, as opposed to a real place, because… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
Football has that wonderful gift of being accessible. You don't need much gear, a coach, or a lifeguard. You just need your imagination, strong… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
What is Africa, anyway? Even I don't know what Africa is, entirely. But I know that it's not some of these simplified sound bites… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
If something hurtful enters your body, you create something beautiful to protect yourself from it. That's my philosophy. — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image