Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgoldis an African-American artist, best known for her narrative quilts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionIllustrator
Date of Birth8 October 1930
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
american-artist bit both felt pain pleased results time trying
I was pleased with the results but every time I look at both of those pictures, I feel a little bit of the pain I felt in trying to put it together.
american-artist people
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.
american-artist enjoy exactly gonna hope looking stories whatever
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.
american-artist benefit decided work
I think actually it's been a benefit to me that my work has been in quilt form, that I decided to quilt my paintings, which is what I do.
american-artist fact hear people recognize saying trying
I think about what I'm trying to say and recognize the fact that people may see what I see or may hear what I'm saying or may not.
stars bridges remember
I will always remember when the stars fell down around me and lifted me up above the George Washington Bridge.
memories fun doing-me
I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
enough stills dissatisfaction
Less is even less, and more is still not quite enough.
men ideas two
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.
i-like-you mean great-day
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.
eye people mind
I'm not presumptuous enough to feel that people are going to feel what I have in mind, so I tell a story, you know, let them read something, that doesn't change, that as I have said it, you know, so that's the way I feel about the viewer, the viewer has a mind of their own and eyes of their own and they're going to see it their way, I just hope they look.
quilts able painting
When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.
success ambition thinking
I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here." Then different factors contribute to how you will do that.
thinking vision way
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.