"I look back now and think, How lucky

not to know what you are doing."

William Kentridge about his early films

from an interview with Calvin Tomkins

in the 1/18/10 The New Yorker

“For me, making art is about a sense of agency. I’m most interested in how to construct meaning through images from the fragmentary aspects of our lives. We don’t have to be passive participants in what goes on around us. We can be empowered by actively projecting our own meaning and understanding onto the world."

“The sheet of paper and the projection screen are membranes where the outside world meets my inside world. Art should be a dialogue. I expect my drawings, films and theatrical works to be met halfway by the viewer, who must also invest them with meaning.”

william kentridge- nytimes, 10/23/09