Kerry James Marshall You have to recover the capacity to imagine yourself as an ideal and figure out how to project that into the world. – Kerry James Marshall Capacity Quotes Figure Quotes Ideal Quotes Imagine Quotes Project Quotes Recover Quotes Paintings don’t just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes things and has no real control or isn’t willfully producing a certain kind of thing. It is labor-intensive, and it is research-intensive. You are making one decision after another, trying to get at something you think is important. The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate that you can produce beauty in the context of a figure that has that kind of velvety blackness. It can be done.
Amos Lee As I’ve moved along – not only my life, but my career and things like that – you look at yourself and start going, ‘Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?’ Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don’t. – Amos Lee
Sara Zarr I don’t want to pretend like I’m some intellectual person who understands Flannery O’Connor. – Sara Zarr
Denis Dutton I have seen journals with good financial backing and editorial support die because they looked so bad nobody wanted to publish them. – Denis Dutton
David A R White Old Fashioned’ can expect strong interest because it taps into a universal human longing. – David A R White
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