Painting Quotes by Amy Sherald

In sociology, they call it 'code switching.' I can feel just as comfortable in a room full of people who don't look like me…

— Amy Sherald

Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.

— Amy Sherald

The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at once. It's…

— Amy Sherald

I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

— Amy Sherald

When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was…

— Amy Sherald

To be human is to be visible.

— Amy Sherald

I paint paintings of people.

— Amy Sherald

Art class was my safe haven.

— Amy Sherald

Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going…

— Amy Sherald

Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path.

— Amy Sherald

I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do.

— Amy Sherald

I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.

— Amy Sherald

I am relieved that I can pay back my school loans.

— Amy Sherald

I don't think anybody can create in a space where they don't feel comfortable.

— Amy Sherald

Michelle Obama is extraordinary, but she is also the kind of woman that exists in a way that is - she's a hundred percent…

— Amy Sherald