Ofili Quotes

#1. Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated.

Immanuel Kant

#2. Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

Jerry Saltz

#3. You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

Darrell Royal

#4. 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

#5. Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

Darrell Issa

#6. It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.

Demosthenes

#7. Suddenly, I began to wonder: If one in three or four American women had an abortion at some time in her life
a common statistical estimate, even in those days of illegality
then why, WHY should this single surgical procedure be deemed a criminal act?

Gloria Steinem

#8. 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

#9. People dwell so much on the little things, but why should they hold you back when you have the big things to look forward to? By exuding positive energy when dealing with your problems, you will exude it in your being in general. Treat yourself with love and you will exude love to others.

Hayley Hasselhoff

#10. They try to engage the world as much as they can and we will continue until they leave our land.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#11. I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.

Elliott Smith

#12. I've never bothered about my color.

Tina Turner

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.

Tupac Shakur

#19. To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

Ben Bernanke

#20. 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

#21. Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood

N. Scott Momaday

#22. I am much relieved as I confess all my sins to conscience.

Chandrashekar

#23. No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

Robert Breault

#24. 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

#25. There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.

Chris Ofili

#26. We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

Jerry Bruckheimer