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Henry Ossawa Tanner Quotes

1859–1937 United States

Henry Ossawa Tanner (June 21, 1859 – May 25, 1937) was an American artist.

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No, father, you preach from the pulpit and I will preach with my brush.

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

It is not by accident that I have chosen to be a religious painter…I paint the things I see and believe.

I am simply M. Tanner, an American artist. Nobody knows or cares what was the complexion of my forebears. I live and work there in terms of absolute social equality.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Ossawa Tanner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.