Mickalene Thomas Quotes

#1. I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings.

Mickalene Thomas

#2. Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever; I want you more than ever.

Cecelia Ahern

#3. Strength does not come in those times when you hit the mark; it comes in those times when you strive to but miss.

Deborah Brodie

#4. Here I am, the artist, the person, the black woman, and the stereotype. I'm using myself and it has nothing to do with my muses or other women. It has to do with me. You see parts of my body moving, very collage like, flashing, and not speaking, just laying on a couch, looking out at the viewer.

Mickalene Thomas

#5. I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and photography. The creativity comes with the editing. You can layer and cut and paste. I really love that it's like another form of making my smaller collages but in video form.

Mickalene Thomas

#6. As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.

Erykah Badu

#7. I knew what I was doing, but I never really considered the magnitude of how my images were transformative to people.

Mickalene Thomas

#8. I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.

Mickalene Thomas

#9. Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

Bertrand Russell

#10. With Dorothy hard at work, the

L. Frank Baum

#11. Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#12. I love New York, Chicago, London, St. Bart's and Italy but one of my fave cities in the whole world is San Francisco. Why? Those are all places that I love to go to cause it feels good to me personally when I'm there.

Steve Perry

#13. One of the inspiring things about Susan Sarandon career is that there's a quality of real fearlessness in it - you seem to be in it for the challenge and the experience.

George Saunders

#14. I grew up with a lot of brothers and I don't have any sisters, so for me it's really important to develop my sisterhood. It's something I've always coveted.

Mickalene Thomas

#15. It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.

Seneca The Elder

#16. Run from me, Grier Hadley, and I'll follow. I'll track you down and find you.

Sophie Jordan

#17. Organized, yeah. And those who are so sure that their God is the right God that they believe it's ok to kill another person who doesn't believe in their God.

Rachel Weisz