Judy Baca quotes

They very often would let me paint, you know, instead of doing some of the other lessons, because I didn't speak English well enough. So I had a lot of painting. And I brought the paintings home with great pride, and my mother kept them for years, so I do know that I sort of...That was a place that I actually remember the smell of those materials and the texture of the surfaces and just, you know, kind of having this real visceral love of moving that color around -- which is, I think, you know, I still have that... (Judy Baca)

For me, art could go where my family went, in neighborhoods where museums are as foreign as the moon, so that working and poor people who had a great appreciation of beauty could see the murals and live with them...

Judy Baca

Judy Baca

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Photo: Rosemary Kaul, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0

Occupation: Mexican-American Artist
Born: September 20, 1946
Quotes count: 2
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