Kentridge Artist Quotes & Sayings

People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions. — Michelle M. Pillow

That's why you can eat cheesecake,' she said, and sighed. 'Because you don't. That's the way it works. — Ann Patchett

Commitment is mental determination to accept only EXCELLENCE no matter how difficult, uncomfortable, or stressful. — Richard Tyler

Resistance is vain in any case; it only leads to useless struggle while inviting grief and sorrow. — Epictetus

All these threads, like the ley-lines he'd read about in his Time-Life history books, converging on the Cicciaro girl, who lay there unaware, a glass-coffined beauty whose kingdom was in ruins. — Garth Risk Hallberg

But I fail to see how that (not buying gifts) would bring back the essence of Christmas. And I don't think it would affect retailers. Besides, that's part of the joy of Christmas ? to give someone a gift to show your appreciation for them. — Mathew Staver

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

You are important to this earth. If you were meant to journey alone, you would not have friends... — Virginia Alison

I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find. — Andre Holland

The South African artist William Kentridge speaks to this type of certainty: 'To say that one needs art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disasters.'
The outcome of the current crisis is already determined. — Nick Flynn