Art Quote by Amy Sherald

“Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.”

Amy Sherald

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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…

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

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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…

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

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

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To be human is to be visible.

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I paint paintings of people.

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Art class was my safe haven.

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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…

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

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

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

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

Benjamin Franklin

“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

Aeschylus

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I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Erich Fromm

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Ray Bradbury

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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