Kerry James Marshall Quotes

Kerry James Marshall
American Artist
Born: Oct 17, 1955
Always Art Black People White You
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There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work. Kerry James Marshall
Work Nothing Painting Magic More Makes Intellect Than Labour Information Special
Too often, if you look back through the history of representation and you take the work of African-American artists, the work is on such a modest scale that it becomes sort of inconsequential. Kerry James Marshall
Work History You Too Back Scale Through Take Look Sort Becomes Often Representation Artists The History Of African-American Modest Inconsequential
Clarity is important. Part of what I'm trying to do with some of these pictures is eliminate as much of the potential, as many kind of readings as people might want to make, as possible. Kerry James Marshall
People Important Possible Kind Clarity Some Potential Part Pictures Make Important Part Readings Trying Want Might Much Many Eliminate
I don't want the pictures to mean things. But the implication of the image and its relationship to the people that are viewing it is something I'm really interested in. Kerry James Marshall
Relationship People Something Implication Pictures Want Interested Mean Really Viewing Things Image
When I go to the movies, I'm expected to identify with all of the characters, and most of them are white. But when you put a black character in there, somehow the white audience isn't expected to identify with them. That's a problem. Kerry James Marshall
Character You Problem Black White Characters Somehow Put Most Identify Audience Go Expected Movies Them
You have to recover the capacity to imagine yourself as an ideal and figure out how to project that into the world. Kerry James Marshall
You Yourself World Project Out Recover Ideal How Capacity Figure Imagine
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