The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It doesn't have to be an accurate drawing, but it has to stand for an observation, not something that is abstract, like an emotion.
My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew up in a family th… - William Kentridge
My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew up in a family th…
- William Kentridge
Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes. - William Kentridge
Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes.
To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning thin… - William Kentridge
To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning thin…
I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense. - William Kentridge
I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.
It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened. - William Kentridge
It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.
I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a poli… - William Kentridge
I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a poli…
The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral questions...in ou… - William Kentridge
The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral questions...in ou…
I'm interested in machines that make you aware of the process of seeing and aware of what you do when you construct the world by looking. This is int… - William Kentridge
I'm interested in machines that make you aware of the process of seeing and aware of what you do when you construct the world by looking. This is int…
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the… - William Kentridge
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the…
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