Quotes About William Kentridge

#1. Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

Amanda Hearst

#2. Don't ask, How will I climb the mountain, just climb the mountain.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

William Kentridge

#4. 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 interesting in itself, but more as a broad-based metaphor for how we understand the world.

William Kentridge

#5. No mother in my community has a more widely recognized hobby than bitching about her child's school. I've come to realize that for many, school is a real drag. It gets in the way of raising a professional athlete.

Jen Mann

#6. I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies,

Mike Nichols

#7. 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

#8. There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.

Paul Newman

#9. Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes.

William Kentridge

#10. 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 world.

William Kentridge

#11. The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning ... The ethical and moral questions ... in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process

William Kentridge

#12. Politicians have often declared that unbridled competition among financial intermediaries promotes failures that will harm the public. Although the evidence that competition does this is extremely weak, it has not stopped the state and federal governments from imposing many restrictive regulations.

Frederic S. Mishkin

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

William Kentridge

#14. Mans vanity transgresses death

Erik Christian Haugaard

#15. 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