Author: Chris Ofili

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We all studied math, but we don't go around spewing numbers. Religion should be used in the appropriate way.

We all studied math, but we don't go around spewing numbers. Religion should be used in the appropriate way.

- Chris Ofili

There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.

There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.

- Chris Ofili

The church is not made up of one person but a whole congregation, and they should be able to interact with art without being told what to think.

The church is not made up of one person but a whole congregation, and they should be able to interact with art without being told what to think.

- Chris Ofili

Change is not indecision.

Change is not indecision.

- Chris Ofili

I believe in God, but I'm not dominated by it.

I believe in God, but I'm not dominated by it.

- Chris Ofili

I love Manchester. I love Manchester United. But I would really struggle to be creative there. I feel a bit lost, over-familiar maybe. Maybe too stuck in my own web of history.

I love Manchester. I love Manchester United. But I would really struggle to be creative there. I feel a bit lost, over-familiar maybe. Maybe too stuck in my own web of history.

- Chris Ofili

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.

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

'Death & the Roses' came out of ideas about flagellation and guilt and from looking at Piero della Francesca's 'The Flagellation of Christ.'

'Death & the Roses' came out of ideas about flagellation and guilt and from looking at Piero della Francesca's 'The Flagellation of Christ.'

- Chris Ofili

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.

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

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