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Kerry James Marshall Quotes

born 1955

Kerry James Marshall (born October 17, 1955) is an African American artist and professor, known for his paintings of Black figures. He previously taught painting at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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“Art is a way of thinking about things. It has nothing to do with an innate ability to do anything.”

“For generations of young people, they have to see it as a possibility. So they can start using their minds to further imagine it.”

"A part of what I’m doing is making work that functions in those same capacities, but that centralizes the Black figure."

"It is more important to resolve whatever those deficiencies are and to bring that work, on its own terms, into a space where it can be dealt with differently."

"Artists make work because other artists made work that they appreciate, and they want to be in a conversation with or thought of in the same frame as those artists that they admire."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kerry James Marshall (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.