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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 I see as a process that's never-ending.

~Chris Ofili

Topics: Closing Create Creative Creative Process Door Exit Feel Never-Ending Opening Point Process See Sometimes Stifle Try Which Work I See I Feel

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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 a conclusion.

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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 wouldn't change it, or who I am.

~Chris Ofili

Topics: Am Change Entirely Got Magic Playing Sense Specialist Subject Who You I Am

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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 lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.

~Chris Ofili

Topics: Art Art School Better Constructed Finished Individual Layers Lots Many Often Only Other Others Painters Painting Paintings Realise School Similarly Some Something Than Think Underneath Were Worked Would You I Think 1980S

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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 work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.

~Chris Ofili

Topics: About Bit Consciousness Contradictions Could Directly Diverse Enemy Exploring Feed Hide Hip Hip Hop Hop Images Like Listening Lot Music Places Public Raising Realised Sampling Taking Trying Using Way Without Work

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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 working that can sustain me over a period of time.

~Chris Ofili

Topics: Become Before Body Experiment Idea Me New New Way Over Period Place Prepared Studio Sustain Time Way Where Work Working I Can

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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.

~Chris Ofili

Topics: Close College Decided Felt Left Life Look Make My Life Myself Only Paintings Royal Want Would

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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.

~Chris Ofili

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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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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 in the studio, but not so much in public.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: October 10th, 1968

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