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In order to express anything you have to abstract it. To say it is realistic, you have to abstract it to bring out the realistic elements

— David Koloane

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It is only Black artists who are insistently reminded at every possible occasion about their own identity, and how they should be conscious of it

I enjoy not having to look over my shoulder.

Travel has been the best education of my life

It comes naturally for me to extend a helping hand to younger, emerging artists today. I was assisted by a variety of people in the creative sphere, so I have to do likewise

Interview with David Koloane (2007)

I had not been inside an art museum until I was in my mid-thirties as one had to be accompanied by a white and, by implication, superior person”.

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