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Ernest Mancoba
18 quotes
“My carvings are made to show Africa to the white man”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Identity and Abstraction: Ernest Mancoba in London and Paris, 1938- 1940 9 May 2018
“Fort Hare was not based on the assumption that black Africans require and deserve a different, inferior kind of education”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wasn’t even considered as a full human being in my own country”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first reason for my leaving South Africa was probably when I understood that I would not be able to become either a citizen or an artist in the land of my fathers”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In my daily life, I felt more and more humiliated at the conditions made to my people”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I soon understood I would never be able to feel free enough, in my mind, to express myself as fully as I wished, but would always knock my head against the barriers which the colonial order had set up in my country, wherever I went”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had no time to lose with the petty vexations, the daily wrongs that the indigenous man had to put up with”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believed that art was precisely also a means to favour a greater consciousness in Man”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Making art was as urgent as working for the political evolution”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know not which kind of destiny had brought me into the presence of the ideal person, and the right group of artists, for a fruitful dialogue and collaboration”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“you will never prove or disprove the truth of our common humanity, any more than a child needs material evidence to instinctively know that his mother is his mother”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not believe that we Africans, any more than other people, should need to show the white man how good we are at speaking or writing his language”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The embarrassment that my presence caused – to the point of making me, in their eyes, some sort of ‘Invisible Man’ or merely the consort of a European woman artist – was understandable, as before me, there had never been, to my knowledge, any black man taking part in the visual arts ‘avant‐garde’ of the Western World”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our history has brought about, little by little, this dichotomy between abstraction and figuration which provokes, more and more, a terrible atomisation in the very essence of life”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me, art can only be founded on the single notion – of which it is both the confirmation and the proof – that Man is One”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“what is still not realised is a common acceptance and understanding between whites and blacks”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Interview with Ernest Mancoba 7 May 2010
“The third world has to be taken into consideration as it exists”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want that this separation this apartheid has to be pushed aside and that all human species have to hang together hand in hand”
Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ernest Mancoba between racial marginality and african modernity at the Pompidou Centre 6 June 2019