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My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother.
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Michelle Obama is extraordinary, but she is also the kind of woman that exists in a way that is - she's a hundred percent relatable to all kinds of people, all genders all around the world.
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.
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Art class was my safe haven.
Amy Sherald -
I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do.
Amy Sherald -
Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.
Amy Sherald -
I'm not a very verbal person.
Amy Sherald -
I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.
Amy Sherald
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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.
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My approach to portraiture is conceptual.
Amy Sherald -
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.
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I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.
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Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.
Amy Sherald -
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