” My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it’s big and overwrought, but it’s just paper dolls, and it’s kind of silly. “
” I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied. “
” I don’t think that my work is very moralistic – at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don’t think visual work operates like that. “
” The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else. “
” A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected… that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. “
” I have no interest in making a work that doesn’t elicit a feeling. “
” Humor’s always been the problem of my work, hasn’t it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing. “
” I took a political stance early on, but I don’t think my work is overtly political. I respond to events. “
” There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn’t fit with what’s the norm or what’s acceptable. There’s something both liberating about it and challenging. I can imagine it doing more harm than good. “
All 9 Kara Walker Quotes about Work in picture
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