History Quote by Amy Sherald

It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.

— Amy Sherald

I'm really passionate about representation in film. I feel like the world is dominated by such a small group of human beings. There are…

— Amandla Stenberg

You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with…

— Idina Menzel

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they…

— Paul Strisik

You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person. A lot…

— Lucy Dacus

I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring…

— Lisa Unger

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I have no way of portraying the lives of others. I portray my own.

— Jan Saudek

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

— Lynn Nottage

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

— Emily Carr

I'm from outside most of these worlds I'm focusing on, and I feel there's an ethical approach to making these kinds of films. My…

— Sean Baker

I don't know what I'm painted as. I can be happy as hell and then someone says something and I feel different. People are…

— Anthony Johnson