Do You Want To Be An Artist

Somehow We Can't Live Outside The Politics Of Race. There's Something Very Deep In All Of Us, That Is Taught To Us When We Are Very, Very Little. Which Is The Disrespect And Fear Of The Other.

Many People Are Afraid To Talk About Race Because It's So Emotionally Loaded. We Don't Have The Vocabulary To Talk About It. Every Day, Our Vocabulary Seems More And More Inadequate.

Art Should Take What Is Complex And Render It Simply. It Takes A Lot Of Skill, Human Understanding, Stamina, Courage, Energy, And Heart To Do That.

They Say That Art Should Stand The Test Of Time. Life Lasts A Limited Amount Of Time. Mountains And Trees And Earth Will Outlive Human Beings, But We Don't Know If They Will Be Here Always. Art Does Outlast The Life Span Of Its Maker. Art Should Communicate To An Increasing Circle Of Strangers-people Who Do Not Know The Artist, But Come To Know The Work, And Through The Work, Come To Know Something About The Humanity Of The Artist That Rings With Their Own Humanity.

I See Myself First And Foremost As A Student Of Expression.