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Susanne Wenger Quotes

1915–2009 Australia

Susanne Wenger MFR, also known as Adunni Olorisha (4 July 1915 – 12 January 2009), was an Austrian-Nigerian artist and Yoruba priestess who expatriated to Nigeria. Her main focus was the Yoruba culture and she was successful in building an artist cooperative in Osogbo.

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The veil of taboo and language scepticism lays itself over the works that are free from materialism and empty transcendence.

"It doesn't matter what you call it. It is a sacred force that represents the experience of life that informs human beingness.

"And as with all religions, there is no true way to explain it along rational lines without leeching it of its meaning and intensely personal quality. You are a part of it and it is a part of you. You may, as so many have done, push it aside, but it remains in you…in all of us."

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