Quotes by Kerry James Marshall

Kerry James Marshall

[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there was a broad range of possibilities and fairly unlimited utility for a black figure that didn’t have to comprise its blackness in order to preserve a place in the field of representation.

Artist

Order

Self

A lot of stuff that I dealt with – music was my serenity, like kind of my safe place, my haven that I would just use in order to really just get away from the things that I saw every day. To kind of erase the things that I saw. So I stayed playing.

Order

Saws

Serenity

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

Different

Path

Two

Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there’s artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there’s the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to preform a particular function.

Different

Order

Two

Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the museum were perfectly satisfied with the narrative they were constructing.

Asking

Museums

People

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.

African American

Art

Black

Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction.

Fiction

People

Science Fiction

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

Imagination

People

World

For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can’t generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of the mythology that you had, then that means that somehow the mythology you had was not only feeble and weak, but that you are ultimately a powerless people. That’s a notion that, I think, that can’t be accepted.

Mean

People

Thinking

I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that’s the only legitimate way of making work.

Choices

Imagery

Way

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African American

Appearance

Art

Artist

Asking

Aspect

Beautiful

Black

Black History

Blood

Body

Book

Boys

Car

Choices

Color

Consideration

Couple

Culture

Cups

Dancing

Dark

Desire

Differences

Different

Dream

Economic

Eggs

Emotional

Energy

Eye

Facts

Fiction

Fighting

Garden

Gateways

Guitar

Hero

Home

Imagery

Imagination

Inspiration

Issues

Kind

Layers

Looks

Loss

May

Mean

Men

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Quotes by Kerry James Marshall

Kerry James Marshall

[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there was a broad range of possibilities and fairly unlimited utility for a black figure that didn’t have to comprise its blackness in order to preserve a place in the field of representation.

A lot of stuff that I dealt with – music was my serenity, like kind of my safe place, my haven that I would just use in order to really just get away from the things that I saw every day. To kind of erase the things that I saw. So I stayed playing.

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there’s artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there’s the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to preform a particular function.

Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the museum were perfectly satisfied with the narrative they were constructing.

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.

Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction.

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that’s the only legitimate way of making work.

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