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Chris Ofili Quotes

'Death & the Roses' came out of ideas about flagellation and guilt and from looking at Piero della Francesca's 'The Flagellation of Christ.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: english
Birth: October 10, 1968

Topics

Death Ideas Looking Guilt Roses Out

Politics abhors a vacuum.

Politics Vacuum Abhors

In the separation of the human species from nature, life goes awry.

Life Nature Separation Human Species

We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought.

Business Passion Great Football More

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

Art Myself Painting World Think Way

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

Great Minds Out Great Minds High

Ask an eight-year-old kid or see his face when he sees a car being blown up. They come to me, ask me what I am doing next. They loved 'Singham' because there were so many cars, and that's why there was no blood, because I knew they will come to watch my film.

Car I Am Me Face Loved Doing

An Oscar nomination? That would be a very satisfying thing, I'm sure. I would appreciate the thought. It would be like taking your hat off as an actor to all the people who walk through you.

Walk Hat People Thought Appreciate

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Sad You Lose Anything Round Form

Wishing there were more children's books like 'The Snowy Day' is a bit like wishing there were more grownup books like 'Anna Karenina.' There are only so many masterpieces out there.

Children Day More Out Only Books

A lot of the other companies in the space have really left a bad taste in regulators' mouths. It's actually been a huge advantage when we come in and we take the time to sit down and get to know them, explain the business, explain what we do.

Business Time Space Bad Down Know

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Thinking Result Always Misery Almost

Novelists lie for a living - what is a novel, after all, but an assembly of fibs paradoxically meant to illustrate something true? - but generally see a distinction between lying on the page and lying off it.

Lie Page Living Lying True See

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