I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it.

- Jacob Lawrence

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

- 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…

- 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

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

- 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 …

- 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…

- Jacob Lawrence

You bring to a painting your own experience.

- 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…

- Jacob Lawrence