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Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.
- Amy Sherald
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To be human is to be visible.
- Amy Sherald
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In sociology, they call it 'code switching.' I can feel just as comfortable in a room full of people who don't look like me because I understand the social cues of class and race.
- Amy Sherald
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My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother.
- Amy Sherald
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My approach to portraiture is conceptual.
- Amy Sherald
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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
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#Rights
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
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I want all types of people to look at my work and see themselves, just like I watch a Reese Witherspoon movie as a black woman and can empathize with her because we have had to internalize whiteness in that way to survive.
- Amy Sherald
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Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path.
- Amy Sherald
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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
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#I Can
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Why can't I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I'm depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented.
- Amy Sherald
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#People
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#Why
#World
I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.
- Amy Sherald
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#Through
I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.
- Amy Sherald
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#Myself
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#World
I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.
- Amy Sherald
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#Want
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Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.
- Amy Sherald
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