American - Artist | August 30, 1973 -
Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.
Amy Sherald
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I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.
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I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.
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I'm painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I'm hopefully presenting them in a way that's universal enough that they become representative of something different than just a black body on a canvas.
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Signing autographs is weird. I'm an introvert, so it's been a strain in that way.
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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.
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When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was in the sentence, I'd draw it.
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My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.
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Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path.
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In sociology, they call it 'code switching.' I can feel just as comfortable in a room full of people who don't look like me because I understand the social cues of class and race.
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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.
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My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother.
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