One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
In [Ralph] Ellison's case, it's more psychological than it is phenomenal, and it's conditioned by anger, animosity, and lack of desire to… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
When I go to the movies, I'm expected to identify with all of the characters, and most of them are white. But… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Part of the history of black people in the western hemisphere, in some ways, has been fleeing from this notion that they… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I just thought someone has to figure out how to break through that barrier and create a narrative for a black super… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Blackness has always been stigmatised, even amongst black people who flee from the density of that blackness. Some black people recoil from… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I still make paintings and use the figure; it's hard to do and hard to succeed. On some levels, because I am… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful...and powerful. What I was thinking to… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
There are fewer representations of black figures in the historical record. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I paint black people is because I am a black person. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The condition of visibility as it relates to black people was crucial. Connected to that, I've always been interested in science fiction… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Just like in the art museum, and notions of beauty and pleasure, if the hero is always a white guy with a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
When art works travel from place to place, what you have is the opportunity to engage with the intellect of another person who has… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I stumbled upon Charles White purely by chance while looking through a book 'Great Negroes, Past and Present' in the library at Forty-Ninth Street… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate that you… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks were transported… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
If you walk into any magazine store, I guarantee that nine out of 10 covers will feature white, blonde, blue-eyed, slim women because that's… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
For black people who are really dark - and a lot of black people were averse to be dark skinned - it was believed… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the museum were… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
What I hope 'Mastry' ends up doing is completely undermining or doing away with the notion that artists are a savant: that they do… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
My dream was always to be in museums. It's a big and important milestone and a fulfillment of one of my primary ambitions. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
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