"Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things - beasts, fowl, and fishes. To respond through touch, sight, smell, and sound to all things in nature - both organic and inorganic-to colors, shapes, and textures - to not only look at a blade of grass but to really see a blade of grass. These things, to me, are what life and living are all about. I would call it "Humanism."
I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something. - Jacob Lawrence
I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.
- Jacob Lawrence
The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but it is not abstract in the s… - Jacob Lawrence
The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but it is not abstract in the s…
I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United States ca… - Jacob Lawrence
I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United States ca…
"Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things - beasts, fowl, and fishes. To re… - Jacob Lawrence
"Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things - beasts, fowl, and fishes. To re…
You bring to a painting your own experience. - Jacob Lawrence
You bring to a painting your own experience.
If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous… - Jacob Lawrence
If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous…
I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it. - Jacob Lawrence
I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it.
My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this philosophy, he does … - Jacob Lawrence
My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this philosophy, he does …
All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what. - Jacob Lawrence
All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion