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I hope it’s a meeting point of imagination, reconciliation and a place to foster peace.

— Yinka Shonibare

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Imagination

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It’s art, it’s not some kind of political propaganda.

Artists make works based on what they're seeing and what people are talking about at the time.

I don't disregard tradition, but should an English person make work about Morris dancing?

After Matisse showed Picasso African art for the first time,it changed the history of modern art.

People think that Africa was not involved in the trade, but there were quite a number of Africans who were very much involved.

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

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There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Alan Moore

An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

Edward Hall Alderson Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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