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Artist Quotes by Amy Sherald

13 Artist quotes by Amy Sherald

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Sherald’s portraits illuminate hidden narratives, and these 13 quotes give a quick taste of how she thinks about the artist’s responsibility to represent. It’s a compact but insightful starting point for anyone exploring her visual storytelling.

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I paint paintings of people.

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I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.

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I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

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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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The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

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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…

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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…

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Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic -…

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Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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When I'm painting and in the zone, it's difficult for me to stop. It can take me half a day to get…

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Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.

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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…

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I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

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To be human is to be visible.

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I paint paintings of people.

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Art class was my safe haven.

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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…

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Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path.

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I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do.

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I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.

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I am relieved that I can pay back my school loans.

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I don't think anybody can create in a space where they don't feel comfortable.

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Michelle Obama is extraordinary, but she is also the kind of woman that exists in a way that is - she's a hundred percent…

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