Kara Walker Quotes

Kara Walker
American Artist
Born: Nov 26, 1969
Artist Black History People Work You
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono
It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun. Kara Walker
Work Love Game Cartoons Totally Rise Feels Like Terrain Call Sticky How Surface Am Demons Sake Heartfelt Trying Just Forth Fun
The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else. Kara Walker
Work History Events Illusion Past Nothing Else About Point Simply Most Past Events
I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied. Kara Walker
Work Trust Space Satisfied Paper Kind Some Pretty Feel Make Go Hand Roll
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say. Kara Walker
Say Knew Know Artist Wanted Really
I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with. Kara Walker
Black Big White Painting Side Our Relieved Kinds Students Mythological Like She Deal Making Issues Were Male Artist Just Themes Figures Paintings Professors Started
I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that. Kara Walker
Work Try Think Visual Moralistic Tendency Like Least Up Very Grew Avoid
A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. Kara Walker
Work Time Situation Heroine Has-Been About Doing Been Lot Same Unexpected Same Time Wanting
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. Kara Walker
History People Black Black History Sponge Historical Film Images
I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything. Kara Walker
Saying You Racism People Walk Seen Ideology Nothing Damning Say Kind Having More Nobody Over Feels Demeaning Supposed Know Walking Than Any Just Anything Just Walking Confronted
I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society. Kara Walker
Me Rebellion Made Society Guess Slight Bit Some Adolescence Point Pictures Liked Contemporary Contemporary Society Genre Renegade Sort Historical Get Maybe Stories Little Little Bit Realize Really Derivatives Paintings Things Desire
I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all. Kara Walker
Black Adequately Never Learned How
I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events. Kara Walker
Work Events Political Think Took Respond Stance Early
I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break. Kara Walker
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