Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value.… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My interest is in completing an image that is spectacular beyond belief. My fidelity is to the image and the art and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
When I'm at my best, I'm trying to destabilize myself and figure out new ways of approaching art as a provocation. I… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In high school I went to the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. And this is like Fame. It's like… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Artists are those people who sit at the intersection between the known and unknown, the rational and irrational, coming to terms with… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think that once you're able to sort of get in line with who and how you relate to the world, you'll… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In the Studio Museum in Harlem, when I was dealing with that community and dealing with my peers in the streets, it… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
This is - it's a sociological experiment in many ways. And so you're seeing the results of what happens when you put… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Let's talk about the artist's desire to go beyond the pictorial or the representational and the desire to create the abstract -… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Your best as an artist is to create something that resonates for you. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
What I try to do is defy expectations in terms of boundaries, whether it is high or low art, pop culture, or… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when they rarely… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing in the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value. And if… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It was something that came sort of matter-of-factually. Because there - it's like really - real honest engagement with the people around me and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at a black… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting with black… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
