William Kentridge Quotes

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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.

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 politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay.

William Kentridge

William Kentridge

William Kentridge

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Born: April 28, 1955 (age 69)

Bio: William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again.

Known for:

I am not me, the horse is not mine (2008) (2008)
The Refusal of Time (2012) (2012)
Secondhand Reading (2013) (2013)
Notes Towards a Model Opera (2015)
Ubu and the Truth (1997) (1997)

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