Art From Black Artists Quotes

#1. I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.

Black Francis

#2. If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?

Cormac McCarthy

#3. There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.

Kara Walker

#4. Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of you.

Mary Roach

#5. Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.

Daniel Handler

#6. One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

Ron Paul

#7. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Tara Crescent

#8. A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.

Brian Clough

#10. I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white ... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.

Leon Battista Alberti

#11. Don't try it."
"What?"
"To win any battle when I set the terms."
She did not answer. She was struck by what the words made her feel; it was not an emotion, but a physical sensation of pleasure ...

Ayn Rand

#12. You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

Agatha Christie

#13. Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.

Henry Sidgwick

#14. I can't possibly put myself in his [Tony Blair's] shoes and be inside his head but what I can say is that the security of the nation is the first duty of any government but at the same time for me going to war would always be the last resort. I would exhaust all other opportunities first.

Andrea Leadsom

#15. Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist.

Lemony Snicket

#16. Being "in love" shouldn't cause stress; it should relieve it.

Jeanne Phillips

#17. I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isn't happening.

Sophie Hannah

#18. Be the symbol of love to feel the joy of life.

Debasish Mridha

#19. I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

Taiye Selasi

#20. I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.

Rachael Price

#21. So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Todd Solondz