The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The revision of any kind of established model is always a political act. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward… — 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
There's this idea that many of the attitudes and personality developments in black folks in the diaspora are a consequence of this… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I think we need to remember...that a lot of energy was put into changing things to get us to the point where… — 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
Sometimes when I can't communicate that I'm frustrated, I'll just grab my guitar and I can play out that emotion and be… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
My own personal sound is really progressive. It's like a mixture of gospel, pop, neo-soul, R&B. It's like a huge gumbo. If… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
What you're trying to create is a certain kind of an indispensable presence, where your position in the narrative is not contingent… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
In some ways you still have to buy your freedom, but that's because you live in a social structure that's organized around… — 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
A lot of stuff that I dealt with - music was my serenity, like kind of my safe place, my haven that… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss… — 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
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
