All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what. — 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)
