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Kerry James Marshall

"If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on a kind of popular stereotypical image of the black figure, in both its flatness and slightly comic edge. To take that image as a starting point and to render it in a proto-classical medium, like egg tempera, and then use a repertoire of classical compositional devices to make the picture was a way of setting up an engagement with art history."

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Kerry James Marshall

#Art Quotes #Self Quotes #Eggs Quotes

“Be sure of what you want work hard, be ready to pick yourself up, do not take rejection personally, be as prepared as you can, always be learning, and eliminate negative people from your life regardless of who they are.”

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“If you can learn to be incredibly passionate about your work without fighting for it just because it's yours, that's a huge thing.”

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“And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.”
“In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.”
“Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I stand before you a free man. Free in body, free in spiret and free in mind! It has been a long, hard and excruciatingingly painful road. For more than five years there has been one investigation after another and now, vindication. And to give the proper dimension I take the cherished words of the late great Dr Martin Luther King: Free at last...thank God Almighty, I'm free at last.”
“May we show increased kindness toward one another, and may we ever be found doing the work of the Lord.”
“If God gives you a dream, and the dream comes to life and God shows up in it, and then the dream dies, it may be that God wants to see what is more important to you - the dream or him.”

Source : Phil Vischer (2008). “Me, Myself, and Bob: A True Story About Dreams, God, and Talking Vegetables”, p.235, Thomas Nelson Inc
“You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.”

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