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 Copy Share Image
A lot of the artists that people equate my work to, I didn't find out about until after graduate school. — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create. — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
When I found photography, I found this other kind of portraiture of black families and black people who were photographing themselves or… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
In sociology, they call it 'code switching.' I can feel just as comfortable in a room full of people who don't look… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
I grew up in Georgia, and my mom would tell me how to perform and act. So I learned to repress a… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
Michelle Obama is extraordinary, but she is also the kind of woman that exists in a way that is - she's a… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
Why can't I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I'm depicting the… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Sherald Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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… — Amy Sherald Copy Share
I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create. — Amy Sherald Copy Share
When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was… — Amy Sherald Copy Share
Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going… — Amy Sherald Copy Share
Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path. — Amy Sherald Copy Share
I don't think anybody can create in a space where they don't feel comfortable. — Amy Sherald Copy Share
Michelle Obama is extraordinary, but she is also the kind of woman that exists in a way that is - she's a hundred percent… — Amy Sherald Copy Share
