"And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of my mind, which is my visual work. I've found collectors who are willing to put money down to live with my work. So I can't criticize the whole mechanism. But I can criticize it as an artist, in spite of the fact that I benefit from it. And there are problems with it."

-- Wangechi Mutu

#Artist Quotes #Dna Quotes #People Quotes

“I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.”

Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.40, Pan Macmillan
“No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.”
“I'm not a snob. Ask anybody-well, anybody who matters.”
“Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.”
“Hey G-Town Gal: turn your underwear inside out! Then u only have to do laundry every 2 weeksâ€”saves on detergent & trips to Laundromat!”
“Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!”
“Good husbands make good wives.”

Source : Martha Finley (2016). “ELSIE DINSMORE Complete Collection – 28 Timeless Children Classics in One Premium Edition: Elsie Dinsmore, Elsie's Holidays at Roselands, Elsie's Girlhood, Elsie's Womanhood, Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds, Elsie's Motherhood, Christmas with Grandma Elsie…”, p.1007, e-artnow
“Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.”

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