Nation Quotes by Kerry James Marshall

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

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

I try to make work about things that matter.

— Kerry James Marshall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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