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Ernest Mancoba Quotes

1904–2002 South Africa

Ernest (Methuen) Mancoba (29 August 1904 - 25 October 2002) was an avant-garde artist, born in Transvaal Colony, who spent the majority of his life in Europe.

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I want that this separation this apartheid has to be pushed aside and that all human species have to hang together hand in hand

My carvings are made to show Africa to the white man

The third world has to be taken into consideration as it exists

I had no time to lose with the petty vexations, the daily wrongs that the indigenous man had to put up with

I wasn’t even considered as a full human being in my own country

I believed that art was precisely also a means to favour a greater consciousness in Man

what is still not realised is a common acceptance and understanding between whites and blacks

In my daily life, I felt more and more humiliated at the conditions made to my people

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

Making art was as urgent as working for the political evolution

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

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

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ernest Mancoba (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.