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Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Bend Imagination Rules Temporal World You

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I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Blackness Breathe Create Portraits Space Want Where

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I thought I was going to die when I was 39.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Die Going Thought

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I'm painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I'm hopefully presenting them in a way that's universal enough that they become representative of something different than just a black body on a canvas.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Become Black Body Canvas Different Enough Hopefully Just Museums Painting Paintings Presenting Representative See Something Than Them Universal Want Way

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Art class was my safe haven.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Art Class Haven Safe Safe Haven

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Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Me Off Path Staying Success True Who You

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The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Actually Artist Had Influence Me Over Who

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My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'

~Amy Sherald

Topics: About Any Artist Attitude Being Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Dentist Doctor Father Him Like Me Movement Really Rights Rights Movement Wanted You

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When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was in the sentence, I'd draw it.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Bird Draw End Flower House Pictures School Sentence Sentences Started Tree Whatever Would

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I've forgotten a lot of things. I've forgotten how to play the piano and how to speak Arabic, though I studied it for two years.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Arabic Forgotten How Lot Piano Play Speak Studied Things Though Two Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: August 30th, 1973

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