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Isaac Emokpae Quotes

born 1977 Nigeria

Isaac Emokpae (born Isaac Iken Ismahil Ọláminíyì Erhabor Ogieva Emokpae on November 5, 1977) is a Nigerian visual artist, painter, and photographer. His work is defined by duality and is known for its expressionist and surrealist features.

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You have to take cognizance of the location as well.

Creativity sometimes can behave like a baby.

Paintings are becoming lost arts in Nigeria.

Things that we take for granted because it is always there, one day we’ll wake up and it’s not there again.

I write everything that I think of or when I hear about something.

We hardly take our aged parents to old people’s homes.

The honest truth is you have to be disciplined and fixed. Don't waver.

As we have the rainy period so we have the sunny period.

You have to be patient no matter how the progress seems. Do it, stick with it.

The Idea Loom’ is a homage to ideas; a celebration of thought and its power, which when properly weaved and harnessed can achieve great and far-reaching consequences.

If there is one thing I inherited from my father, it is that a message is effective when it is simple.

I find kindred spirit in the likes of Femi Kuti, Seun Kuti and Dare Art Alade who are shouldering a heritage.

My forms represent the semi tangible container that we call the soul, and the colours are expressive of the various emotions that we all encounter in our everyday relationships.

The question has to be, will I want to buy and sell? Do I like what I want to go into? Do I have to create and enjoy what I am about to create?

We draw lines where there are no lines.

Creativity is like a force of interest.

I actually just call myself an artist.

The sooner they come back the better.

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