American - Artist | August 30, 1973 -
I thought I was going to die when I was 39.
Amy Sherald
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The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.
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Art class was my safe haven.
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My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'
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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.
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It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.
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I paint paintings of people.
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I don't think anybody can create in a space where they don't feel comfortable.
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Art was not a thing for my family and is still not a thing for my family. My family will not go to a museum unless I say we have to go there. That's why I really feel like it was something I was supposed to do because there was no directive that pushed me in that direction.
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The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at once. It's hard to explain. I can look at 100 people in a room but only find it in one person.
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I'm not a very verbal person.
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To be human is to be visible.
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