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I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself. Michael Heizer

Myself Background Promoting Come Academic Raised

I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn't the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe. Michael Heizer

To me, this is the most awesome kind of art. When the music is right, everybody is as much a part of the art. Michael Israel

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I always found that Trump had this power about him. Michael Israel

Power About Had Him Always Trump Found

I think I only went to college because it was close to the karate school. Michael Israel

School College Think Only Because Close Karate

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. Michelangelo

Pain Every Born Delight Gentle Thing Fountain

What do you despise? By this you are truly known. Michelangelo

You Despise Known Truly

The School of the Art Institute is an extraordinary teaching institution by the fact that it believes that active studio artists are good teachers. That may seem an obvious statement, but in higher education, it is often the student's course evaluations that win the day with administrators. Michelle Grabner

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Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it has become a lazy profession in regard to its relationship to the artists and the vigorous state of art making. Michelle Grabner

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The whole experience co-curating the Biennial was a learning experience. The Suburban and The Poor Farm are not institutions. They are not by design, organized around power structures. Because I am someone who thrives on delineating context, seeing up close the inner workings of the museum was not wasted on me. Michelle Grabner

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My artistic decision to cast my mother's objects into bronze moves beyond the notions of memorializing her. I've been fascinated for some time with the idea of monumentality and what it means to memorialize. Both of these notions are relevant historically, artistically, and culturally. Mickalene Thomas

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I remember when I first saw Whoopi Goldberg doing standup, and she was wearing a sheet on her head, basically pretending to be this little white girl with long luxurious blonde hair. Everyone can relate to that. It's an oral history of black women's lives through laughter. Mickalene Thomas

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What you put on your wall should be inspiration. Mickalene Thomas

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There's a great desire for people to alter themselves, but it's also the art of transformation. 'I want a bigger butt; I want bigger boobs.' The artifice interests me - how we're capable of altering ourselves. There's a creative element that's very intriguing. Mickalene Thomas

You know, the emotion - it comes in my art. The kind of person I am, I can deal with things, and I do and I can, but I'm not a crier. Mickalene Thomas

Art You Kind Emotion Know Deal Am Person Things

What's always intriguing to me is transforming my subjects into a character from another era. Mickalene Thomas

Character Me Intriguing Another Always Era Subjects Transforming

With photography, you've captured a moment time - it's that moment only - and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire. Mickalene Thomas

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I am proud to be able to exhibit my work and inspire young people. Especially young black women so they know that they are beautiful, that they don't have to hold onto any negative stereotypes. Mickalene Thomas

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