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“If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being.” quote by Jacob Lawrence — Download Open image

“If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being.”

Jacob Lawrence

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All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

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You bring to a painting your own experience.

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This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

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I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

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Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things - beasts,…

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I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it.

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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

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Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom…

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Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the…

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Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good…

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I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!

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The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

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