Kerry James Marshall Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Art, African American, Black

• I don't see those paintings as abstractions, especially because they are emblems of the inkblot. They aren't smashed together; they are constructed shape-by-shape, layer-by-layer, like any other picture.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Together, Shapes, Layers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I still make paintings and use the figure; it's hard to do and hard to succeed. On some levels, because I am working with black figures and black pigment, it's even harder because I have to be more responsible for the image. I try to be really careful about the presence the figure projects.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Black, Trying, Succeed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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