Taylor Simmons Quotes
b. 1990
Taylor Simmons(1990), Texas.He is an American actor.
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That stuck with me. If I’m thinking about it too much, I’m trying to be loved. If I’m just painting, it’s real. It’s true. It flows. It’s just me moving. I’m not asking for permission.
I had this reckoning: life is really short. I was like, all right, let me actually pursue this.
I painted this gang member for my solo show. Homie’s got the face tattoos, and he’s throwing gang signs.
If you look at it and you feel the rhythm of what’s going on, that says it’s successful. More so than if everything was exact.
It’s like a tender moment — one friend holding up another friend.” In that world, “a man can only really touch or support another man in these instances. So I thought I’d make a painting of it.
When I first moved out there, my first friend and I would hang out all the time in school. One day he came up to me and was like, ‘We can’t hang out anymore. My parent’s said I’m allergic to you’.
When Black folks actually started to move out there, it was exciting because the music was different, the style was different, everything was different. I was finally seeing people that looked like me.
My tees were so tall, oh my God.
I love that red, the dirt in Georgia is that same red. It’s iron oxide. That color has always spoken to me. It feels very warm and has a lot of history to it. It’s nostalgic for me.