You bring to a painting your own experience. - Jacob Lawrence

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I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

Jacob Lawrence

You bring to a painting your own experience.

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My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this philosophy, he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas.

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All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

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This is my genre. . . the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

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I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools. . . I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro. I didn't [paint] just as a historical thing, but because I believe these things tie up with the Negro today. We don't have a physical slavery, but an economic slavery. If these people, who were so much worse off than the people today, could conquer their slavery, we can certainly do the same thing. . . . I am not a politician. I'm an artist, just trying to do my part to bring this thing about.

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I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

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Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.

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I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.

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