“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.” WorldArtBeautifulEmotionMarkDrawingObservationAbstractAccurate Book:William Kentridge Source: William Kentridge
“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.” WorldWayFactsUnderstandingSeeingAbsurdProductiveAccurateConventionalRationalitySeeing The WorldRuptureUnderstanding The WorldConventional Ways Author:William Kentridge
“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.” WorldProcessInterestingSeeingMachinesMetaphorBroadsConstructs Author:William Kentridge
