Art Quote by Adrian Tomine

Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?'

— Ronny Chieng

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an…

— George A. Sheehan

I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing…

— Aziz Ansari

Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think…

— Ai Weiwei

The goal of Asians in the arts is plurality of roles. I've always been hindered by me over-thinking what is a stereotype and what…

— John Cho

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

— Chloe Bennet

I don't want to perpetuate a stereotype. I don't want to take Asian representation backwards two steps. I don't want to be part of…

— Jessica Henwick

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

— Bess Truman

I've been seesawing between not doing too much racial stuff - because I'd rather be known as the funny comedian than the funny Chinese…

— Ronny Chieng

I felt, implicitly, or not so implicitly, that subjects about women and other races were out of my jurisdiction as a creator. That if…

— James Franco

Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a…

— Brice Marden

There is a political and racial context behind everything that I do. Not always because I design it that way, or because I want…

— Kehinde Wiley