Color is life, or a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are the children of light, and light is their mother. Light (...) reveals to us… - Alma Thomas

The making of a picture involves two processes: a taking in of the impression and giving out of it by the visible expression. (....) The degree of beauty in a picture depends upon the feeling for beauty in the artist and his power to express it.

In my opinion Black art is a misnomer. There are black artists and they, like all others, draw from they experiences to produce artistic expressions. If this expression is non representational, it is difficult or not impossible to tell whether the artist is white or non white. There can be no doubt however of the impact traditional African art has had on the world of modern art.

Art is inevitably the expression of external conditions, modified though they be by the genius and personality of the artist.