Faith Ringgold Quotes


"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."
- Faith Ringgold
(Related: Work, Hope, Mind, Right, Writing)

"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."
- Faith Ringgold
(Related: Love, Being, Day, World)

"I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy."
- Faith Ringgold
(Related: Love, Power, Saying, Trying)

"I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me."
- Faith Ringgold
(Related: Fun, Memories)

"Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face."
- Faith Ringgold
(Related: Vision, African, Faces, Thinking)

"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."
- Faith Ringgold
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