William Kentridge Quotes
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
Quotes to Explore
-
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
-
I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
-
I don't like possessions.
-
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
-
A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
-
I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
-
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
-
In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
-
My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
-
My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
-
To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
-
At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
-
A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'
-
My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
-
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
-
We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
-
I like Everton. If I'm going to cheer for that kind of football team, I'm going to cheer for Everton. But the Seahawks are my passion.
-
My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
-
I love '80s horror.
-
Surely it's better to live in the country, to live on a prairie by a drawing of rivers, in Iowa or Illinois or Indiana, say, than in any city, in any stinking fog of human beings, in any blooming orchard of machines. It ought to be.
-
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
-
In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.
-
I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
-
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
