The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else. Kara Walker Read Quote
I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things – genre paintings, historical paintings – the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society. Kara Walker Read Quote
I took a political stance early on, but I don’t think my work is overtly political. I respond to events. Kara Walker Read Quote
I’m fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There’s something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth. Kara Walker Read Quote
To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what’s not working and challenge it. You riff on things. Kara Walker Read Quote
The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us – viewer and maker – in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss. Kara Walker Read Quote
Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not. Kara Walker Read Quote
