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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Mind, Stories, Hope

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Benefit, Understand

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Great, World

• 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.

  Faith Ringgold

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, American, Idea

• 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

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Difficult, Sometimes, Message

• I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.

  Faith Ringgold

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thinking, African

Faith Ringgold (7)

Birth:	8th October, 1930
Nationality:	African, American
Profession:	Artist, Feminist, Professor

About

Faith Ringgold was raised in Harlem and educated at the City College of New York, where she studied with Robert Gwathmey and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. After receiving a Bachelor's Degree, she taught in the public school system in New York. She received an M.A. from the college in 1959. In 1970, Ringgold began teaching college level courses. She is the professor emeritus in the University of California, San Diego visual art department.

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