Keorapetse Kgositsile famous quotes

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.
-- Keorapetse Kgositsile

#Art #Color #Roots

All things come to pass When they do, if they do All things come to their end When they do, as they do. . . .
-- Keorapetse Kgositsile

#Ends

Those things in life that matter will give you pain as you learn to understand life.
-- Keorapetse Kgositsile

#Pain #Giving #Matter

But any Time is with us. And if we take control to shape our attitude and reshape our memories, that time is always now, - our time for the best possible uses of our lives.
-- Keorapetse Kgositsile

#Memories #Attitude #Use

What you already know is merely a good departure point.
-- Keorapetse Kgositsile

#Departure

When the clouds clear we shall know the colour of the sky
-- Keorapetse Kgositsile

#Clouds #Sky #Clear

What you know is just a point of departure. So let's move!
-- Keorapetse Kgositsile

#Moving #Past #Departure

Gut it is will move us from the gutter .. . to the rebirth of real men.
-- Keorapetse Kgositsile

#Real #Moving #Men

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character--an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.

Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.