For black people who are really dark - and a lot of black people were averse to be dark skinned - it… — 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… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I don't want the pictures to mean things. But the implication of the image and its relationship to the people that are… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
For black people, everything we do has to be ratified and endorsed by a power structure that is white. And that reinforces… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Part of the history of black people in the western hemisphere, in some ways, has been fleeing from this notion that they… — 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
At a certain point, you have to decide whether you'd be satisfied always acknowledging the beauty and the greatness of what other… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Blackness has always been stigmatised, even amongst black people who flee from the density of that blackness. Some black people recoil from… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I really just want to be an inspiration. I'm a regular guy, that had a dream, that came from a small town,… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I try to tell a story when I'm playing. I try to make an emotional connection when I'm playing versus before I… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
People don't really want to hear me say this, but a black person who will give a million dollars to the Museum… — 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
What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I paint black people is because I am a black person. — 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
Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The history of political movements in the African diaspora is that the solution to the problem is never in the hands of… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Clarity is important. Part of what I'm trying to do with some of these pictures is eliminate as much of the potential,… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of… — 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
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