Wangechi Mutu Quotes

I watched a lot of avant-garde films, like Maya Deren's work, and I love film's technical ability to do things that are impossible in real life. It's related to the way collage allows you to manipulate reality and the hierarchies that are inherent in our awful but amazing world.

Wangechi Mutu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: kenyan
  • Birth: June 22, 1972

Topics

CuriousMeLookAlwaysAfraidBeen

I think that's the great thing about all 'Black Mirror' episodes - it really leaves you with this feeling of not knowing how to feel.

Jesse Plemons

GreatMirrorBlackThinkNot Knowing

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.

Joel Robuchon

GoodFoodEatingYouBackWant

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

Jennifer Granholm

Stand UpStandYouSometimesNeed

I think that the dehumanization of another person can happen in the matter of an instant.

John Carroll Lynch

ThinkPersonMatterHappenInstant

I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.

Robert Smith

MeSomeonePageNeverAnything

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

Andy Goldsworthy

PurposeAcceptProjectSomething

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.

Jeff Kinney

SchoolCollegeStartAttentionGot

It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.'

Solange Knowles

SadParentsYouTeachersNeverTell

Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.

Sonia Sotomayor

GodForwardThinkYouLooksSay

I've been in some situations where people have treated me like a fascinating toy. You know, it's just like an interesting kind of fun thing to have a play with. It's very weird for me. I feel like a tiny baby.

Lorde

FunPeopleMeBabyWeirdYou

When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.

Clemence Poesy

LifeLiveI AmFamePositionNormal

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

Brian Ferneyhough

YouthPhilosophyStudentSayDays

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