Art Quote by Kerry James Marshall

“The National Gallery is the place that means to represent everything that's good and important in art and show what it believes everyone who is a citizen should recognize and engage.” quote by Kerry James Marshall — Download Open image

“The National Gallery is the place that means to represent everything that's good and important in art and show what it believes everyone who is a citizen should recognize and engage.”

Kerry James Marshall

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There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

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When art works travel from place to place, what you have is the opportunity to engage with the intellect of another person who has…

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I try to make work about things that matter.

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I stumbled upon Charles White purely by chance while looking through a book 'Great Negroes, Past and Present' in the library at Forty-Ninth Street Elementary School in South-Central Los Angeles. I was in the fifth grade.

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The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate that you…

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Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the…

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One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks were transported as slaves, into servitude, when they were carried out of Africa they left empty-handed, but they didn't leave empty-headed. They carried with them the culture they knew, the culture they had, and that culture reconstituted itself…

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If you walk into any magazine store, I guarantee that nine out of 10 covers will feature white, blonde, blue-eyed, slim women because that's…

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For black people who are really dark - and a lot of black people were averse to be dark skinned - it was believed…

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Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the museum were…

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What I hope 'Mastry' ends up doing is completely undermining or doing away with the notion that artists are a savant: that they do…

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My dream was always to be in museums. It's a big and important milestone and a fulfillment of one of my primary ambitions.

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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