"I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams."

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Source : "Chris Ofili: 'I wander deep into the forest - where it's scary'" by Mark Hudson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 25, 2010.

Chris Ofili

#Hip Hop Quotes #Listening Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“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
“You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.”
“I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.”
“Music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so again I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Nothing is out of reach for Jesus.”

Source : Stasi Eldredge (2014). “Free to Be Me: Becoming the Young Woman God Created You to Be”, p.80, David C Cook
“The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it.”
“What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself.”
“The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.”

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