Faith Ringgold - Painting of Faith Ringgold

Famous quotes containing the words painting, faith and/or ringgold:

“Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

“Miracles sometimes happen, but more often they’re made of faith and will and hope and imagination, to say nothing of sweat.”
—Tom Waldman (d. 1985)

“No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.”
—Faith Ringgold (b. 1934)