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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I wanted to do was to look at the powerlessness that I felt as - and continue to feel at times - as a black man in the American streets. I know what it feels like to walk through the streets, knowing what it is to be in this body and how certain people respond to that body.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gauguin is creepy - let's just face it. He goes off into the Pacific, and he's looking at these young girls, and the colonial gaze: It's just really problematic.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all look at the same object in different ways.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for time immemorial.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when they rarely do, they try to problematize it.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others.
- Paint
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how young black men are seen. They're boys - scared little boys, oftentimes. I was one of them. I was completely afraid of the Los Angeles Police Department.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sexuality is not black and white. I'm a gay man who has occasionally drifted. I am not bi. I've had perfectly pleasant romances with women, but they weren't sustainable. My passion wasn't there. I would always be looking at guys.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.
- Art World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about, or even looking at.
- Exceedingly
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- Nov 07, 2020
During 1989, my mother, who was exceedingly good at finding these free programs - you know, we were on welfare, just trying to get through - but she would find these amazing programs. She sent me to the Soviet Union at the age of 12 to go study in the forest of then-Leningrad with 50 other Soviet kids.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming. It doesn't get any better than that.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020