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I always wanted to record moments of beauty, moments of knowledge. Art is life. Without art, life would be frozen.

— J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere

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To watch a hair artist going through his precise gestures, like an artist making a sculpture, is fascinating.

The state has never really cared about the arts here and, although we have many people who are very rich, we also lack good private institutions for the promotions of the arts.

All these hairstyles are ephemeral. I want my photographs to be noteworthy traces of them.

We had so many dreams at the time. We thought a country so rich in natural resources could really go ahead on its own. But our dreams were shattered by tribalism.

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

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The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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