"As far as was possible, I worked from old archival photos of the district, first engraving, then inking up the areas with etching ink, and finally cleaning the ink from the surface, so that only the ink in the lines remained. I used a tin of ink I discovered in my studio, dating from the 80s and made by the incomparable T E Lawrence of London."

"Throughout her career artist Sue Williamson has asked viewers of her photos, videos, urban graffiti and other pigeonhole-resistant labours to critically think about how and where they live."

"Williamson ran a series of workshops where she explored the power of place and its identity to various citizens. At the end of the workshop, a consensus was reached on how best to exemplify their feelings around that particular place."

"I am trying to reconstruct a vision of District Six as it was in the 1960s,"

"Williamson also writes and lectures about art, and is the author of the classic ‘Resistance Art in South Africa’ (1989). In 2009, she published ‘South African Art Now’ (HarperCollins, New York)."

"I enjoyed these encounters. As an artist, one so seldom knows what the reaction of visitors to a gallery really is, or if they understand what one is trying to do."

"Williamson is a social commentator and combines slick aesthetic devices with hard, cutting edge facts of life. This is almost contradictory, yet it is precisely in this tension, that we are both lured into the artwork and then come away thinking about the issues, the image thus returns to text as it were."

"Trained as a printmaker, Williamson also works in video, photography and installation. Her work addresses the media, social issues and aspects of contemporary history."

"Standing at the window through many different weathers, trying to reconstruct that vanished landscape, many visitors to the gallery came up to me to chat, and recall their memories of District Six, or asked me what exactly I was doing."

"It's beholden upon storytellers, whether they are in the media or museum world, to tell deeper stories and to provide a point of connection, and that kind of hasn't really been happening. That’s because you need contemporary artists to go there and (for the institution to) be comfortable with a certain level of subjectivity."

"That’s what it means to be an artist, for me, listening to the land and letting the land tell the stories."

"The fact that (the mask) was heavy was important — I saw information in that. This idea that, here is this material that’s petroleum-based, and I liked the poetry of how it has kind of prevented performance, but that they also look sugary. But the cost is so much more (than the traditional wooden masks). And they also make beautiful pictures quite frankly!"

"I do not consider myself an activist and never will. I hope nothing happens to me that forces me to engage on a single issue."

"I think regions are strong when they maintain strong cultural ties to their past and thus a powerful sense of self. Cultural power leads to other forms of power. So for me culture comes first, and contemporary art is a tool and strategy to uncover the past and develop cultural capital."

"Assemblies are portals where...flora is alive. I am introducing a West African cultural approach to alcohol consumption which is ritual, medicinal, mindful and moderate. My Assemblies are an opportunity to explore the very idea of ‘spirit’. The history of distilled spirits is alchemical and to me occupies a very powerful nexus at which spirituality and science meet...And the events do feel spiritual but they’re also very warm, rigorous and engaging. It is social medicine."

"Mario Schifano per la qualità della pittura è un artista straordinario aldilà della sua biografia."

"C’è in ogni sua opera brivido di movimento, fremito di ribellione contro il rischio della decorazione, c’è vita, mai staticità, morte."

"Spero sempre di fare quadri senza inutili volontà di spiegazioni."

"The ideas are contemporary to the gesture, I immediately spit them on the painting."

"As long as I'm alive I'm rich."

"Se non fossi Andy Warhol vorrei essere Mario Schifano."

"È l’alba di una fantasia [...] La sua pittura è un darsi totalmente delle mani e del corpo."

"Schifano è un pittore puma: Un piccolo puma di cui non si sospetta la muscolatura e lo scatto, che lascia dietro di sé l’impronta nitida e misteriosa dell’eleganza"

"Painting is my way of existing."

"I do not accept the blackmail of the past."

"Voglio dipingere la pittura."

"Painting is human, too human."

"I live in the present and in the future [...] I don't accept the blackmail of the past."

"No matter how much I try, I’m still unpredictable even for myself. You can even say that I may be slightly impulsive."

"Money is a separate part it is essential part it is important for sure when i first started earning from YouTube for me it was like ok i will not pay any attention to this because I'll get spoiled i will corrupt my mind I'll buy things that i shouldn't i would never focus on money i would just keep on creating, like i don't want to stop that was my mindset."

"My alter ego was a major confidence booster in my life and helped shape my digital career in ways more than one. "It felt amazing to be recognised due to the fan appreciation, something like what we see in the superhero films."

"I would like to consider myself an artist and I have always courted the idea of being abstract and misinterpreted. Anything that can evoke a sense of emotion and passion is art for me."

"My expectations were nothing. I only wanted 50K subscribers, a room to play my games in and make enough money to be able to buy new games and create content."

"Best thing about my work is my ideas can be my reality no matter how weird it is. I'll always be grateful to you guys for this I don't care how weird the idea is, I just want to have fun."

"The more insecure you are the more you want to make people laugh."

"I fervently believe that art must be a tool with which the artist and the visitor or spectator must be intimate. In some occasions, with the approval of the visitor and in others, without it. It is the artist's responsibility to transform the viewer who visits an exhibition of his in a museum or gallery. It would be a total irresponsibility to allow the visitor to leave the museum, the exhibition or the performative experience in the same way that he has entered."

"My life and work feed back to such an extent that creating is living, and living is not possible without creating."

"I don't currently have any kind of family and I have had to learn to live each of my artistic and vital processes in total solitude."

"All my extreme movements, all of them, are allied with madness."

"Binarism or God are not concepts to deconstruct, they are concepts to destroy."

"I am not as afraid of anything as myself."

"I was born on April 1, 1988. Birth certificate 2841329, dated December 2, 1991, proves that I legally did not exist until I was about four years of age."

"Abortion is one of the greatest measures for child protection."

"I have always found the unhappiness of people attractive, because if not, I would not trust them."

"Life without provocation would be summed up in resignation, skepticism and mental asepsis."

"When I regained consciousness, I was transferred to a psychiatric clinic. I stayed there for twenty-two days. Against previous diagnoses, which identified a bipolar disorder, I was diagnosed with a personality disorder. Again, I was medicated enough to practically not be able to speak. I remember walking through those halls more dead than alive."

"Few weapons are more political than the body."

"As much as I try to isolate death desires from my life, they have accompanied me since I can remember."

"Working with pain and the body to the limit, living with wounds and a mental illness, sleeping awake invaded by night terrors, all this entails a spirit of resistance."