“When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.” PeopleThinkingConversationIntellectualCriticizeCritique Author:Kalup Linzy
“I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.” ThinkingAbleArtistStepsMastersHappeningsI RealizedCrafts Author:Kalup Linzy
“You can talk yourself out of doing something if you start to think about, "How would this person see it, or that person see it?" So sometimes it's allowing myself to be in it and not talking myself out of it.” IfsThinkingPersonsSometimesTalkingAllowingNot Talking Author:Kalup Linzy
“We all, as human beings, have different layers, and if we become one-dimensional or really superficial, then I still think there are things that happened that got us to that place.” IfsThinkingHumansStillsDifferentHuman BeingsHappenedLayersSuperficial Author:Kalup Linzy
“I think I'm aware of entering my late 30s versus being in my late 20s, when the web was coming out as this new thing. It reminds me of how people used to tell me about my great-grandmother and how they used to gather around a radio listening to soap operas.” PeopleThinkingUsedListeningLateRadioGrandmotherComing OutOperaNew ThingsEnteringVersusSoapSoap OperasGreat Grandmother Author:Kalup Linzy
“People say if you keep making work and keep putting it out, better things will come. I think artists should never forget that. I think that's what you have to be committed to if you're an artist, that's where the good feelings come from. It's so easy to get caught up in other stuff, like the business part of it. If you just have to be aware, just keep putting it out there.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldFeelingsArtistEasyStuffForgetCaughtCommittedNever ForgetCaught UpEasy To GetGood Feeling Author:Kalup Linzy
