"When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively."

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Source : "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.

Chris Ofili

#Art Quotes #School Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.”
“I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.”
“Man's brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource.”
“I think that Hollywood is content with condescending to Black people, patronizing them, feeling sorry for us, and I think we're happy to take the pat on the head as a people and take whatever awards.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.”

Source : Jacobo Timerman (1982). “The longest war: Israel in Lebanon”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.”
“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season of the era that roared.”

Source : Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.1, Harper Collins
“I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving”

Source : Freya Stark (1974). “Letters: The furnace and the cup, 1914-30”

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