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

Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes.

- 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…

- 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…

- William Kentridge

I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.

- 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

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

It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.

- 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…

- William Kentridge