Phrase by 'Faith Ringgold'

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I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.

Author: Faith Ringgold - American Artist
  Love , You , Day , Feel


I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.

Author: Faith Ringgold - American Artist
  Me , Doing , Fun , Memories


Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are different. We hail from Africa to America, so the culture is mixed, from the African to the American. We can't drop that. It's reflected in the music, the dance, the poetry, and the art.

Author: Faith Ringgold - American Artist
  Music , History , Art , Dance


I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.

Author: Faith Ringgold - American Artist
  People , American , Men , Women


I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.

Author: Faith Ringgold - American Artist
  Me , People , Think , Looking


I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

Author: Faith Ringgold - American Artist
  Work , Feel , Enjoy , Hope


I can recall that nobody ever went out the door that wasn't dressed nicely, even though it was the Depression. I particularly remember on Sunday, the day we all went to church, if you didn't have it together, you kind of stayed in the house.

Author: Faith Ringgold - American Artist
  You , Day , Depression , Together


The reason why I began making quilts is because I wrote my autobiography in 1980 and couldn't get it published because I wanted to tell my story, and my story didn't appear to be appropriate for African-American women.

Author: Faith Ringgold - American Artist
  Story , Women , Tell , Reason


I think all children love art, but not all get the opportunity to do it.

Author: Faith Ringgold - American Artist
  Love , Children , Art , Opportunity


There were people who would complain about their jobs, and my mother would walk away from that job. I liked that a lot about her. She was a very, very creative woman, and eventually, she stopped working outside the house, and she just had her own customers whom she made clothes for.

Author: Faith Ringgold - American Artist
  People , Walk , Woman , Mother


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