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Kerry James Marshall - From the Activity category:
I don't believe in hope. I believe in action, if I'm an apostle of anything: There are always going to be complications, but to a large degree, everything is in your hands. (Kerry James Marshall)
Kerry James Marshall - From the Ambition category:
My ambition was never to make a lot of money. It wasn't to travel around the world. I was really just struggling to make the best pictures I could make. (Kerry James Marshall)
Kerry James Marshall - From the Art category:
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 image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to preform a particular function. (Kerry James Marshall)
Kerry James Marshall - From the Creativity category:
What you're trying to create is a certain kind of an indispensable presence, where your position in the narrative is not contingent on whether somebody likes you, or somebody knows you, or somebody's a friend, or somebody's being generous to you. (Kerry James Marshall)
Kerry James Marshall - From the Culture category:
People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device. When we talk about ourselves as a people and as a culture, we talk about black history, black culture, black music. That's the rhetorical position we occupy. (Kerry James Marshall)
Kerry James Marshall - From the Education category:
I think the only value of being in school is that everything you do should be a problem that needs to be solved. Everything should be a challenge. (Kerry James Marshall)
Kerry James Marshall - From the Exhibitions category:
My dream was always to be in museums. It's a big and important milestone and a fulfillment of one of my primary ambitions. (Kerry James Marshall)
Kerry James Marshall - From the Humanity category:
The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness to be a fairly pure category while blackness has to absorb an expansive reality of representation. (Kerry James Marshall)
Kerry James Marshall - From the Painting category:
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. (Kerry James Marshall)
Kerry James Marshall - From the Perception category:
It's forcing the issue of perception by rendering an image that is just at the edge of perception, which in someway forces you to look more closely and for you to adjust your vision so you can see in the dark. (Kerry James Marshall)
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