Apology Quote by Andrea Thompson

I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking…

— Hedi Slimane

I remember I took an editorial, and I was so excited. I got the pictures back, and I looked in the magazine, and I…

— Iskra Lawrence

I was responsible for having a clean image. I wanted people to have respect for black people.

— Leslie Uggams

One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the…

— Jose Parla

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

My first black-on-black picture was 'The Portrait of an Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self.' I started using it as an emblem…

— Kerry James Marshall

I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the…

— David Maisel

My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.

— Richard Phillips

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

— Kehinde Wiley

Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see those people…

— Kehinde Wiley

I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

— Ahmet Ertegun

I actually own works of art I've always wanted to own - I collect photographs by the late William Claxton. I met him in…

— Michael Buble