159 Quotes by Ben Okri

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will...

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.

I was going to be a scientist.

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.