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10 quotes by Chris Ofili

Christopher Ofili, known as Chris Ofili (born 10 October 1968), is an English Turner Prize-winning painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung. He was one of the Young British Artists. Since 2005, Ofili has been living and working in Trinidad, where he currently resides in Port of Spain. He also lives and works in London and Brooklyn.
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The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not... →

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Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which... →

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I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.

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There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subject - in the Mastermind sense - and I... →

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I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my... →

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There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.

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When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

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Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there... →

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The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of... →

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When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from... →

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