"People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of the work. But my starting point is always the language of painting itself and how that relates to the subject matter."

-- Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

#People Quotes #Black Quotes #Painting Quotes

“The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.”
“There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.”

Source : Wendy Beckett (1995). “Meditations on peace”
“If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.”
“Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.”
“I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.”
“Playing for Billy Martin is like being married to him. Right now, we're all sleeping on the couch.”
“The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.”

Source : "Paul F. Tompkins on how and why he spent 25 years without a driver's license". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.
“One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.”

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