American - Artist | October 17, 1955 -
I don't believe in hope. I believe in action, if I'm an apostle of anything: There are always going to be complications, but to a large degree, everything is in your hands.
Kerry James Marshall
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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.
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In Western Catholicism, darkness was evil. In the colonial and imperial context, dark skin was always weak, powerless, subjugated. If you see these images all the time, they become commonplace, and they no longer become a spectacular or sensational thing.
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The revision of any kind of established model is always a political act.
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When I go to the movies, I'm expected to identify with all of the characters, and most of them are white. But when you put a black character in there, somehow the white audience isn't expected to identify with them. That's a problem.
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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.
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My dream was always to be in museums. It's a big and important milestone and a fulfillment of one of my primary ambitions.
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One of the reasons I paint black people is because I am a black person.
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There are fewer representations of black figures in the historical record.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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