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“I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.”

Years Art Made Artist Black White Decision Careers Creative Pieces Years Ago Magazines Artistic Apology Black And White Publication Prestigious

Author:Andrea Thompson

“I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.”

Artist Black Solo Detroit Platinum

Author:Obie Trice

“I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.”

Art Artist Black Abstract Squares Abstract Art

Author:Jonas Mekas

“I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.”

Art Use Light Artist Black White Knowing Objects Painting Skills Convinced Supreme Relief Shade Black And White

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.”

Mean Whole Earth Used Artist Black Can Do Modern Ivory Palette Pompeii

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.”

Artist Black Interesting Color Absence Symbolic

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.”

Whole Moments Artist Black Sky Red Blue Busy Gray Blue Sky Rejuvenation Gray Skies

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.”

Light Earth Artist Black Dark Color Painting Blue Passing Passings Atmosphere Horizon Rays Rainbow Orange Violet Blazing Indescribable Dark Blue Colors Of The Rainbow Light Blue

Author:Yuri Gagarin

“I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others, often art and artifacts that have been obtained by dubious means. But they also manipulate whatever it is they present to the public; hence, until Judy Chicago, in the 1970s ... few women artists were hung in any major museum. Indian artists? Artifacts only, please. Black artists? Something musical, maybe? And so forth.”

Mean Has Beens Art Artist Black Please Majors Musical Indian Museums Chicago Trusted Hung Manipulate Never Trust Dubious Artifacts Woman Artist

Author:Alice Walker