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I gave up on the idea of making art a long time ago, because I wanted to know how to make paintings; but once I came to know that, reconsidering the question of what art is returned as a critical issue.

~Kerry James Marshall

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Working from live models is too much trouble; it takes too much time.

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One of the reasons I paint black people is because I am a black person.

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Paintings don't just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes things and has no real control or isn't willfully producing a certain kind of thing. It is labor-intensive, and it is research-intensive. You are making one decision after another, trying to get at something you think is important.

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I think the only value of being in school is that everything you do should be a problem that needs to be solved. Everything should be a challenge.

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As a black person, I'm used to going to places in which I might be the only black person that shows up there. This experience has an effect on the way you see yourself in the world and what it means to be black in the world.

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I try to make work about things that matter.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: October 17th, 1955

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