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Pascale Marthine Tayou
33 quotes
“I make proposals, and it’s up to the public to make their choices!”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I travel the world gathering joy of living wherever I go”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: PASCALE MARTHINE TAYOU 11 April 2024
“For me, it’s most important first to see the simple side of things”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I see my work as a lubricant that facilitates entry”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m in a space of observation from my little corner. Like a little grain of sand, observing!”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are leaders, people who carry the big pebble, who carry the whole pile of sand. But the little grain of sand is also part of the whole”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On the fine art scene, I become a quote-unquote star. By way of photography, I have found an artistic response to that star, that image”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I kill, I assassinate a vision of myself because I don’t plan to wear the image that has been made of me, that image of being an artist”
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“Love is a round-trip ticket”
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“If I love you, that means divorcing myself”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I shouldn’t love what I am in the other person. I should love the other person because they are themselves”
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“At the same time, love is a divorce. Therein lies the mystery of life”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I’m in a space of observation from my little corner 2 April 2015
“Colour is like a letter in an alphabet, Letters are forms used to write languages. Colours are tools to make things talk”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pascale Marthine Tayou: something Universal 27 February 2019
“We can see the journey on several planes, it can be physical, it can be mental, so it can be a displacement, from a mass to a point, it is precisely the journey of a human being who starts from one point to another point”
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“To travel is to collect foam”
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“for me, identity is never unique, it is never individual”
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“We don’t have an identity, we have identities because it is imposed on us”
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“It seems that sometimes according to certain meanings we can believe that we are linked to the origins of our ancestors, we are linked to the origins of our race, we are linked to the thought of the first people who belong to your village”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The origins of others are not our origins until the moment we enter the other’s room”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The environment is first and foremost a question of mentality”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not a green person, I am as much of a polluter as you are”
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“I am as much a polluter as the others. The polluter is my neighbour. I am an accomplice. We are complicit in our ignorance”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The best way to talk about the environment is to just be human, kind, kind to your neighbour, kind to the weed in the forest. When it becomes too political a score, it no longer has much effects, because you are linked directly to a group of thought”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: COLOURFUL LIFE 12 December 2020
“I like collecting things. Everything that comes into my hands presents a possibility, a potential, and always has a multifaceted life”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The life that we all lead is enveloped by a terrifying darkness. So one always has to have the courage to bring out the ligh”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think that children, who are more innocent, are better at wearing their masks than us adults”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pascale Marthine Tayou: School of Clowns 22 March 2016
“I’m discovering myself through others’ eyes”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art has always been in search of peace”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Chaos isn’t necessarily negative. Chaos is the only order possible, but we need to understand how it can be used to allow us to live in an advanced, spiritual way”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art is a state of mind, like a group of people making soup”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Artists In Conversation: Michelangelo Pistoletto and Pascale Marthine Tayou with Maryam Eisler February 2024
“The world is my inspiration; it is so large and full of objects which through their diversity help me bring about solutions to my existential questions”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a student of life and what motives me in first instance is the discovery of the path that would lead to the ideal man.”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All of the paths that I borrow, so to speak, are worth it. They are all grains of sands that together create a beautiful beach”
Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Unmasking Leading Contemporary African Artist Pascale Marthine Tayou 21 March 2018