Jacob Lawrence Quotes

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

You bring to a painting your own experience.

I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it.