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I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Aid Doctor End End Of The World Function Heart Hospital Me Months Out Percent Rite Spent Transplant Two Waiting World

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It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: About Find Got Hard Me Only Paint People See Something Them I Can

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I paint paintings of people.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Paint Paintings People

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I don't think anybody can create in a space where they don't feel comfortable.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Anybody Comfortable Create Feel Space Think Where

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Art was not a thing for my family and is still not a thing for my family. My family will not go to a museum unless I say we have to go there. That's why I really feel like it was something I was supposed to do because there was no directive that pushed me in that direction.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Art Because Direction Directive Family Feel Go Like Me Museum Pushed Really Say Something Still Supposed Thing Unless Why Will

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My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Art Career Competition Decision Gallery Me Mother National Never Portrait Program She Summer Support Supported Until Willing Won

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Signing autographs is weird. I'm an introvert, so it's been a strain in that way.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Autographs Been Introvert Signing Strain Way Weird

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The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at once. It's hard to explain. I can look at 100 people in a room but only find it in one person.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Choose Contain Explain Find Future Hard In The Past Look Models Once Only Past People Person Present Quality Room Seems I Can

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I'm not a very verbal person.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Person Verbal Very

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To be human is to be visible.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Human Visible

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: August 30th, 1973

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