The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has…

- Henry Ossawa Tanner

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

- Henry Ossawa Tanner

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, the ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciatio…

- Henry Ossawa Tanner

I will preach with my brush.

- Henry Ossawa Tanner

My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting… but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public th…

- Henry Ossawa Tanner

I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused …

- Henry Ossawa Tanner

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

- Henry Ossawa Tanner