Artist Quote by Kehinde Wiley

One of the reasons I paint black people is because I am a black person.

— Kerry James Marshall

Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I paint paintings of people.

— Amy Sherald

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

— Roy Lichtenstein

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

— Aesop Rock

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to…

— Lucian Freud

When you surround yourself with white people, you continue to hire white people, and when you make an effort to hire people of color,…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.

— Kehinde Wiley

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

— Larry Poons

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of…

— Edi Rama

I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience, this is…

— Kehinde Wiley

Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has…

— Edvard Munch