Quotes by Artists

Why can't I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I'm depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented. Amy Sherald
History People World Own Characters See My Own Never Make Documented Make Up Existed Up Want Depicting Paint Who Many Whose Why Presence
I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe. Amy Sherald
Space Blackness Where Want Breathe Create Portraits
Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path. Amy Sherald
Success Me You Path Staying True Off Who
It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see. Amy Sherald
Me People Find See About Something Only Got Them Hard Paint
I thought I was going to die when I was 39. Amy Sherald
Thought Die Going
The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett. Amy Sherald
Me Had Over Artist Influence Who Actually
Art class was my safe haven. Amy Sherald
Art Class Haven Safe Safe Haven
I've forgotten a lot of things. I've forgotten how to play the piano and how to speak Arabic, though I studied it for two years. Amy Sherald
Speak Though Arabic Piano Studied How Years Lot Forgotten Play Things Two
I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world. Amy Sherald
Me Heart Waiting Doctor World Aid Months Spent Out Percent Rite Hospital End End Of The World Transplant Function Two
I paint paintings of people. Amy Sherald
People Paint Paintings
I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create. Amy Sherald
People Tell Through American Stories American People Create Paint Paintings
Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype. Amy Sherald
Painting Complete Once See Something More Longer Model Bigger Themselves Paintings Lives Symbolic
I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do. Amy Sherald
Curse Much
When I'm painting and in the zone, it's difficult for me to stop. It can take me half a day to get into that space, and once I do, I only talk to a certain few people who won't disrupt it. Home to sleep and back at it, nothing else outside of getting food. Everything else is an annoyance getting in my way. Amy Sherald
Food Day Home Me People Space Half Few Nothing Painting Difficult Else Back Everything Once Everything Else Way Only Take Outside Annoyance Talk Get Few People Getting Stop Certain Who Disrupt Zone Sleep
My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother. Amy Sherald
Me Strong Lost Changed Brother Until How Dying Realize
I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy. Amy Sherald
Me Black Kindergarten Feel Like Schools Grade Just Wanted Twelfth Amy
I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small. Amy Sherald
Small Wanted Things Museums
A lot of the artists that people equate my work to, I didn't find out about until after graduate school. Amy Sherald
Work People School Out Find About Until Equate Lot Graduate Graduate School Artists After
When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama. Amy Sherald
Work Time Me People Spending Say About Tend Color Came Lot Ask Panama
I want all types of people to look at my work and see themselves, just like I watch a Reese Witherspoon movie as a black woman and can empathize with her because we have had to internalize whiteness in that way to survive. Amy Sherald
Work Woman People Black Types Way See Had Empathize Like Look Because Reese Witherspoon Survive Just Want Movie To Survive Themselves Whiteness Internalize Her Watch
Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way. Amy Sherald
Truth Art Food Soul Painting Way Someone Fact Dead Because Said Just Just Because Mean
Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger. Anders Zorn
Mother Cold Alike Log Log Cabin Inside Some Cabin Goodbye Fell She Said Snow Just Younger Grandmother
The substance of painting is light. Andre Derain
Light Painting Substance
My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world. Andreas Gursky
World Result Structures Clear Maintain Perhaps Track Preference Grip Keep Illusory Things Desire
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. Andrew Wyeth
Me History Wonderful World Father Active Imagination Those Would Shakespeare Tales Aloud Read Reader Became Very
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window. Andrew Wyeth
You Joy First Analytical Flying Out Window Clean Emotion First Place Felt Up Get Goes Subtle Place
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