Top 29 Quotes by Kara Walker

About Kara Walker

These are some quotes by American author Kara Walker Artist, who was born on November 26, 1969.

My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.

My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.

Kara Walker

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

Kara Walker

I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.

I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.

Kara Walker

I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.

Kara Walker

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

Kara Walker

I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

Kara Walker

Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.

Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.

Kara Walker

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

Kara Walker

I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

Kara Walker

There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn't fit with what's the norm or what's acceptable. There's something both liberating about it and challenging. I can imagine it doing more harm than good.

Kara Walker

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