I am fascinated by these ocean-grown folks. On the coast, there’s all this cross-pollination of ideas. Someone thinks they saw something. One person’s madness is reiterated by another, and a story is born. The rumour becomes a substitute for news. Wangechi Mutu Read Quote
The ocean is the source of life. We all come from there. I think about these one-celled creatures, and I think about the planet. It is related to my obsession with biology, even if it’s only a layperson’s obsession. The way I visualise what’s at the bottom of the ocean is very much to do with how I feel when I’m swimming in the sea. Wangechi Mutu Read Quote
In ‘National Geographic,’ you always saw pictures of tribal Africa. And here I am, sitting in Nairobi in our suburban house, watching TV and thinking, ‘Why is it always going to be these tribal people ‘that are the ambassadors of our image? Wangechi Mutu Read Quote
I think there is something about countries and nations that is hard to define. And, in fact, that’s probably why we create such massive boundaries – because it’s so slippery where they begin and where they end. Wangechi Mutu Read Quote
I use femaleness as another lens, so I don’t even think all my creatures are women; I just think that I bring out the femaleness in them. Wangechi Mutu Read Quote
Our interest is in showing that homophobia is not part of the agenda for a new Africa. Wangechi Mutu Read Quote
I would like to make work for my country, art which is innately Kenyan by being made in Kenya. Wangechi Mutu Read Quote
If something hurtful enters your body, you create something beautiful to protect yourself from it. That’s my philosophy. Wangechi Mutu Read Quote
