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Dindga McCannon Quotes

born 1947

Dindga McCannon (born 31 July 1947) is an African-American artist born and raised in New York. She has had a multifaceted career as a fiber artist, muralist, teacher, author, and illustrator.

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The legacy that I want to leave is that if you love something and if you pursue something and if you don’t mind working insane hours indefinitely and forever, you can be successful

I have a different sense of self that wouldn’t allow me to be intimidated by other peoples’ opinions

I had no idea that women weren’t supposed to be artists or anything about the art world

Through art, if you can show someone how to create something, it gives them empowermen

You find your way through years and years of practice and the process of working, and eventually you find your own voice

I’ve always equated my relationship with art with a long love affair

Having natural hair at that time was another battlefield, minefield

When I was doing nudes, I would never paint them white; they would be green, they would be blue, they would be every color but white because I was in this mindset of, Why does it have to be white all the time? There’s other colors in the rainbow

Africa was not a place where people lived in the jungle but an advanced country with an incredible history

It was a very prejudiced world back then—not that things have changed all that much since then

I wanted to paint Black people because that was natural to me

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dindga McCannon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.