Ofili Quotes & Sayings

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale. — Ian MacKaye

There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subject - in the Mastermind sense - and I wouldn't change it, or who I am. — Chris Ofili

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life. — Chris Ofili

She could've slept then. She wanted to. Sleep was blind, it was deaf, and it would take her away from this room and these men. — Marie Rutkoski

To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of Government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people. It is in the power of Government to prevent much evil; it can do very little positive good in this, or perhaps in any thing else. [Thoughts and Details on Scarcity] — Edmund Burke

He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors. — Thomas A Kempis

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time. — Chris Ofili

All you need is love! — Rita Henderson

Mark my words, Lila. You'll be mine in all ways you can imagine. — Stephanie Witter

Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending. — Chris Ofili

After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary. — Najib Razak

What others say and do is a projection of their own reality. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically. — Chris Ofili

Work is wholesome, and there is plenty for everyone. It keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion. — Louisa May Alcott

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. — Chris Ofili

When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively. — Chris Ofili

Bill's tongue had started at Cirocco's toes and was now exploring her left ear. She liked that. It had been a memorable journey. — John Varley

Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public. — Chris Ofili

I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more. — Chris Ofili

In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people. — Chris Ofili

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion. — Chris Ofili

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. — Abraham Lincoln

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise. — Jerry Saltz

Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo. — Jerry Saltz

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants. — Cassandra Clare