I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Joseph Gotto, yeah. Just all-around one of the more inspiring artists - not because of any sort of specific content direction, but… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
So much of the hubris that surrounded conceptual art in the 1950s through '70s was that it had this arrogant presupposition that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Women are expected to identify gender as a starting point. Ethnicities are expected to identify that as a location. Is it ever… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Like, the smells and the sights and the sounds. As an artist, you want to sort of be able to engage that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think what we should concentrate on is what it feels like to be a working artist in the day to day.… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think that just the nature of art education in schools, it's about packs, you know? Like, we're young wolves running together,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Being a kid with black skin in South Central Los Angeles, in a part of the world where opportunity didn't necessarily knock… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There is a political and racial context behind everything that I do. Not always because I design it that way, or because… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for… — 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
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