Artist Quotes by Kehinde Wiley
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A classroom of young art students shows how Wiley breaks learning into bite‑size steps. He says the best art points to who we are and what we value, urging inclusion of movements like Black Lives Matter. He also notes that his own paintings are shaped by gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation, making each work a product of its situation.
![“In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dda/kehinde-wiley-1194_ends_in-the-end-i-m-in-love-with-it-western-e_1857256.jpg)
![“My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that any artist who wants to create a grand narrative on a grand scale has to sort of parse out some of the smaller aspects of painting or the more mundane aspects of painting to others.” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9b9/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_my-studio-practice-is-a-i-suppose-a-bit_2097387.jpg)
![“I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem [New York, NY]. I wanted to know what that was about. I would actually pull people from off of the streets and ask them to…” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dd2/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_i-began-working-within-the-streets-of-ha_2894302.jpg)
![“For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted small flowers. This was the Christ painting [The Dead Christ in the Tomb, 2008] in my Down exhibition [2008]. Now, I simply can't spend eight hours a day painting small…” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f48/kehinde-wiley-1194_christ_for-example-in-one-of-my-last-exhibition_923224.jpg)
