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My work is about celebrating resilience, hardship and the beauty that is embedded in those things

— Trevor Aloka

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At least every artist I know is creating art as a form of advocacy for something. It could be politics, the environment, or humanity.

As an artist, your voice becomes louder if you’re championing a certain cause

I acknowledge the fact that an artist can be more than a creator of art, but also become an audience for another artist’s work

African art is now recognised globally because African Contemporary artists have moved away from the ideology of making art only for art’s sake

As an artist I believe that if I create solely for my immediate people, I will be in my own cocoon

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

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

William Wordsworth

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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