Amy Sherald Quotes

A lot of the artists that people equate my work to, I didn't find out about until after graduate school.

~ Amy Sherald

About After Artists Equate Find Graduate Graduate School Lot Out People School Until Work

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Art class was my safe haven.

~ Amy Sherald

Art Class Haven Safe Safe Haven

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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

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Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.

~ Amy Sherald

About Artist Becoming Empirical Going Hard Hard Work Make Mean Put Work You

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I am relieved that I can pay back my school loans.

~ Amy Sherald

Am Back I Am I Can Loans Pay Relieved School

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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

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

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

~ Amy Sherald

Anybody Comfortable Create Feel Space Think Where

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I grew up in Georgia, and my mom would tell me how to perform and act. So I learned to repress a lot of myself so that other people would feel comfortable.

~ Amy Sherald

Act Comfortable Feel Georgia Grew How Learned Lot Me Mom Myself Other People Perform Tell Up Would

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I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

~ Amy Sherald

American American People Create Paint Paintings People Stories Tell Through

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I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.

~ Amy Sherald

Looking Myself Paint Way World

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I paint paintings of people.

~ Amy Sherald

Paint Paintings People

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I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do.

~ Amy Sherald

Curse Much

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

~ Amy Sherald

Die Going Thought

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

~ Amy Sherald

Blackness Breathe Create Portraits Space Want Where

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I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.

~ Amy Sherald

Museums Small Things Wanted

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I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy.

~ Amy Sherald

Amy Black Feel Grade Just Kindergarten Like Me Schools Wanted

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I'm not a very verbal person.

~ Amy Sherald

Person Verbal Very

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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

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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

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

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