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Beatrice Wanjiku
21 quotes
“I always had the need to understand how things work”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“when I graduated I did not know who I was”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But who am I as a painter?” I asked myself”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When my mom fell ill, it was then that my work changed. My work lost color. I could not see the beauty in color. The context of my work had totally shifted.”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was trying to express the emotions, the things that we hide because I realize that faces become masks. People are not allowed to express what they feel”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only way to grieve is through my work”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being married and having kids is the pinnacle of success especially in an African setting.”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you stop caring how people look at you and at your work, you are freer”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love the human form. It is central to my work”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am very content with my life but the world is not content with who I am because I don’t follow a typical idea of who I should be”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have a sense of peace when I look at my paintings”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you think about ourselves as human beings, we see ourselves as finite. We die but I feel our spirit lives on. You live and grieve beyond the canvas.”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I constrain my figures within the canvas I feel like my figures are almost not breathing”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People ask me why do I decapitate my characters. We are never present in our lives. We are almost mechanical”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I say to people: If you want pretty pictures, I don’t know how to do that anymore. Beauty is so temporary”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is loneliness when you break the rules of the community”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My work transformed because I spoke of the human condition. I am painting what is very real to me”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Kenyan artist Beatrice Wanjiku 3 November 2016
“Although I am the point of origin of my work, and although of course it all starts with me and my experience, it is not just about me. It is about us, about people, all of us going through similar experiences with different ways of expressing ourselves”
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“When you see these individuals with their mouths wide open, please remember that elation and pain sometimes bear the same expression. For a while I have been studying the human predicament, the thin line that exists between empathy and the lack of compassion”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beatrice Wanjiku 1 November 2015
“For me, human bodies are a metaphor for mental frames of reference”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“BEATRICE & OKELLO BOTH HAVE ONE OFF SHOWS TWO ACCLAIMED KENYAN ARTISTS AT ONE OFF 6 September 2021”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source