One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: Archibald John Motley, Junior was an African-American visual artist. He studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1910s, graduating in 1918.
