Quotes by Artists

There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger. Keith Haring
Strong Sometimes Will Stronger Once Some Seem Only Head Nail Because Makes Reduced Hit Just Which Again Them Really Use Right Images
I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it. Keith Haring
Good School College State High Pennsylvania High School About Only Small Good Thing Small Town Town Like Well Real Up Movie Grew Theater Movie Theater Thing
Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch. Kenneth Noland
Those Eye Touch Only Because Representation Interested Things
Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors. Kenneth Noland
Seniors Other Mentors Context Begins Artists
Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter. Kenneth Noland
Great Made Had Known Painter
I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist. Kenneth Noland
Other Willing Give Could Share Also Been Any Artist Help
The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance. Kenneth Noland
Country Living Distance Bit City Seductive Scene Part New Most Attractive Within York Done New York Centered Apart Then Commuting Now Kept
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique. Kenneth Noland
Generation First Own Group My Own Never Identity Clique Artists
I'm constantly doing new stuff. I'm always excited. I'm a one-man tornado. Kenny Scharf
Tornado Constantly One-Man Excited Stuff New Always Doing New Stuff
Part of what I do and what I want to do is I want to bring art into the everyday life. If you can take ordinary just walking in the street and you're confronted by something, that might change your day - it might inspire you. Kenny Scharf
Life Art Day You Change Inspire Everyday Life Everyday Something Take Part Walking Just Want Ordinary Just Walking Confronted Might Your Street Bring
I always thought it would be a great thing to do an art carwash. So you can actually go and get your car washed, but while you're sitting around waiting you can walk in that hallway where you look at the cars going through the window, and that could be changing exhibitions. Kenny Scharf
Art Great You Waiting Walk Car Thought Changing Would Would-Be Window Could Through Look Great Thing Around Always Hallway Go Exhibitions Get Sitting Going Where While Your Washed Actually Thing
When you go to an art museum, the thing you're least likely to encounter is a picture of a black person. When it comes to ideas about art and about beauty, the black figure is absent. Kerry James Marshall
Art You Black Picture Beauty About Absent Ideas Likely Least Go Encounter Person Figure Thing Museum
People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device. When we talk about ourselves as a people and as a culture, we talk about black history, black culture, black music. That's the rhetorical position we occupy. Kerry James Marshall
Music Me History Culture People Black First Ourselves Black History Black Music About Blackness Device Talk Occupy Lot Rhetorical Ask Figures Reasons Why Position
The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate that you can produce beauty in the context of a figure that has that kind of velvety blackness. It can be done. Kerry James Marshall
You Beauty Become Skin Kind Darker Blackness More Lighter Acceptable Context Demonstrate Done Want Produce Figure Marginalised
The revision of any kind of established model is always a political act. Kerry James Marshall
Political Kind Always Political Act Revision Model Any Established Act
For black people who are really dark - and a lot of black people were averse to be dark skinned - it was believed that you'd be so dark that you couldn't see them at night unless they were smiling or you could see the whites of their eyes. At one time, it was a sharp comic barb that got levelled at some people. Kerry James Marshall
Time You Eyes People Dark Black Some People Unless One Time See Some Could Sharp Smiling Comic Got Were Lot Them Really Averse Skinned Whites Who Believed Night
My introduction to art history was like everybody else's. You see an art history book that has works by Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Yes, these things are great. But I don't see a reflection of myself in any of these things I'm looking at. Kerry James Marshall
Art Myself Great History You Book Reflection Looking Everybody Else Introduction See Rembrandt Like Art History Yes History Book Michelangelo Any Leonardo Leonardo Da Vinci Works Things
One of the reasons I paint black people is because I am a black person. Kerry James Marshall
People Black Because Am Person Paint Reasons
I try to make work about things that matter. Kerry James Marshall
Work Matter Try About Make Things
There's this idea that many of the attitudes and personality developments in black folks in the diaspora are a consequence of this unresolved trauma. There have been attempts by black artists to try and figure out how to represent that in some kind of way. Kerry James Marshall
Personality Try Black Way Out Kind Folks Some Unresolved Attempts Idea Developments Attitudes How Been Represent Artists Figure Many Trauma Consequence
The National Gallery is the place that means to represent everything that's good and important in art and show what it believes everyone who is a citizen should recognize and engage. Kerry James Marshall
Art Good Citizen Important National Everyone Everything Recognize Represent Place Gallery Should Engage Means Show Who Believes
What you're trying to create is a certain kind of an indispensable presence, where your position in the narrative is not contingent on whether somebody likes you, or somebody knows you, or somebody's a friend, or somebody's being generous to you. Kerry James Marshall
You Somebody Kind Indispensable Generous Likes Knows Narrative Contingent Friend Trying Being Where Whether Create Certain Your Presence Position
I see myself as having fulfilled a lot of my ambition. All the things I dreamed of achieving, I've achieved for the most part. Kerry James Marshall
Myself Ambition Dreamed See Having Part Most Lot Achieved Achieving Fulfilled Things
My ambition was never to make a lot of money. It wasn't to travel around the world. I was really just struggling to make the best pictures I could make. Kerry James Marshall
Best Travel World Money Ambition Struggling Could Never Pictures Make Around Lot Just Really
I think the only value of being in school is that everything you do should be a problem that needs to be solved. Everything should be a challenge. Kerry James Marshall
Needs You Problem School Challenge Value Think Everything Solved Only Being Should
If people keep telling you you can't do a thing, then you need to find a really good reason to continue. If someone tells you you can't do something, how will you know? If someone tells you something is impossible, how will you know? Kerry James Marshall
Good You People Impossible Will Telling Tells Find Good Reason Someone Something Know How Continue Then Really Reason Keep Thing Need
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