Kara Walker Quotes
- The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.
- One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw. I…
- A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at…
- There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then…
- Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what…
- I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who would we be…
- Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White Being equated with…
- I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really an important thing.…
- If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'
- I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.
- I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors…