Amy Sherald Quotes
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When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was in the sentence, I'd draw it.
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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.
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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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I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.
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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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I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do.
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Art class was my safe haven.
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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.
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I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.
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My approach to portraiture is conceptual.
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Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.
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I'm not a very verbal person.
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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.
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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.