Biography of robert colescott

Knowledge of the Past is the Key to the Future: Some Afterthoughts on Discovery (detail), 1986, Robert Colescott

"When it came down to choosing my major, the counselor at the college .

. . advised me to reconsider because he didn't think that there would be a career for me as an African-American person.

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There would be no career, say, in the diplomatic corps."

– Robert Colescott

"I kind of blew apart abstract painting and put it back together again. And I did a lot of different things, always knowing that the farther I got into expressionism, the more I wanted to come back to a more structured idiom."

– Robert Colescott