If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being. — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what. — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto. — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something. — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
"Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things - beasts,… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but it is… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it. — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
![“I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro. I didn't [paint] just as a historical thing, but because I believe these things tie up with the…” quote by Jacob Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/53f/jacob-lawrence-42624_artist_i-ve-always-been-interested-in-history-b_212404.jpg)
