The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

- Carrie Mae Weems

You know, artists are influenced by other artists. We're all deeply influenced by what's around us; we don't make anything cold. Sometimes we think t…

- Carrie Mae Weems

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

- Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body i…

- Carrie Mae Weems

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have …

- Carrie Mae Weems

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as…

- Carrie Mae Weems

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This…

- Carrie Mae Weems

Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my su…

- Carrie Mae Weems

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camer…

- Carrie Mae Weems