I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
If I have the same plan to go into the streets, find random strangers, use art-historical referent from their - from the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think what's really interesting and useful about this question is that ultimately all art is a type of self-portraiture. And so… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
One of my most strong memories was studying with Mel Bochner, one of the, I think, high water marks of American conceptual… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Questlove is an artist who I respect because he constantly shifts within the idiom, challenging perceptions of hip-hop and black American culture. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I had no idea about where I was going. I had no sense of art as anything other than a problem to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
As a working artist, I became increasingly aware of the patterns we see in the street and in America, becoming globalized in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think I've come through the art-industrial complex - I've been educated in some of the best institutions and been privy to… — 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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