Skip to content

A young generation will be able to consider the planet we live in and find ways of repair, connection and love.”

— Otobong Nkanga

Another quote →

Source and credibility

Wikiquote does not flag this quote as disputed or misattributed.

Source: Zachary Small, Otobong Nkanga Wins the Nasher Prize for Sculpture, The New York Times, 5 October 2023.
Source quality: Precise citation Points to a specific work with a page, chapter, date or similar locator, so you can look it up.

More by Otobong Nkanga

I think that everybody has, I hope, or tries to in this lifetime, tries to have a passion of something that you wake up in the morning and and you feel motivated by. You feel that it's necessary for it to be in this world and when we don't find that quest, and when we do not know, it leads to many Questions of existence.

All Otobong Nkanga quotes →

Topics

Love

More quotes by Otobong Nkanga

Your ancestors are part of your life in the present, and they are also the ones who show you the way into the future.

Humans are only a small, minute part of the ecosystem, but we as beings have forgotten this.

I don’t like the word “sustainable”, I never did. The whole system has to change.

I wasn’t expecting this (winning the Nasher Prize for Sculpture), but I am extremely honored.

I'm very interested in the microscopic and the general, and how those two things intersect and play roles and expand our understanding of what we are.

All Otobong Nkanga quotes →

You may also like

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Otobong Nkanga (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.