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title: "21 Black Quotes By Kehinde Wiley"
description: "21 Black quotes by Kehinde Wiley. Plus more from Kehinde Wiley and more Black sayings from other authors."
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> [Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/painting-is-about-the-world-that-we-live-in-black-men-live-in-the/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/there-were-certain-expectations-that-were-assumed-of-me-as-a-young/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [My peers at the time: you know, young black kids from off the streets of Harlem, having these conversations with me in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/my-peers-at-the-time-you-know-young-black-kids-from-off-the-streets/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [It's sad, the enslavement of the black underclass to designer labels - we're an age that cares more about Versace than Vermeer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/it-s-sad-the-enslavement-of-the-black-underclass-to-designer-labels/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/the-performance-of-black-american-identity-feels-very-different-from/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [Europe has been a place of refuge. Why should it stop with black and brown bodies?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/europe-has-been-a-place-of-refuge-why-should-it-stop-with-black-and/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-understand-blackness-from-the-inside-out-what-my-goal-is-is-to/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-have-been-painting-models-with-black-and-brown-skin-only-for-the/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [And as a young black man, a lot of my professors would really think that it was useful to see the work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/and-as-a-young-black-man-a-lot-of-my-professors-would-really-think/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/what-s-interesting-about-young-black-american-artists-within-the/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-think-something-that-you-might-be-able-to-locate-in-the-work-that-i/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [That's the trouble with, I think, my - the contemporary read of my work. So many people just simply say, "These are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/that-s-the-trouble-with-i-think-my-the-contemporary-read-of-my-work/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/that-s-partly-the-success-of-my-work-the-ability-to-have-a-young/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [If I were making paintings of a bowl of fruit it would still be viewed through some sort of political lens, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/if-i-were-making-paintings-of-a-bowl-of-fruit-it-would-still-be/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-ve-jokingly-painted-some-of-my-favorite-collectors-as-black-men-so/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-think-at-the-l-a-county-museum-of-art-i-saw-my-first-example-of/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [I happen to be a twin. I grew up half of my life with someone who looks and sounds like me. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-happen-to-be-a-twin-i-grew-up-half-of-my-life-with-someone-who/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [In the end, so much of what I wanted to do was to have a body of work that exhaustively looked at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/in-the-end-so-much-of-what-i-wanted-to-do-was-to-have-a-body-of-work/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [What I wanted to do was to look at the powerlessness that I felt as - and continue to feel at times…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/what-i-wanted-to-do-was-to-look-at-the-powerlessness-that-i-felt-as/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [I love the of dealing with the homoerotic versus the idea of dealing with certain tropes with regards to black masculinity in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-love-the-of-dealing-with-the-homoerotic-versus-the-idea-of-dealing/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [For years, I've been painting black men as a way to respond to the reality of the streets. I've asked black men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/for-years-i-ve-been-painting-black-men-as-a-way-to-respond-to-the/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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## Other authors on Black

## More by Kehinde Wiley

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/much-like-teaching-art-to-young-art-students-age-10-to-15-or-so-on/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when they rarely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/the-erotic-and-the-art-historical-imagination-is-something-that-gets/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/one-of-the-weirdest-things-that-happened-to-artists-and-art-criticism/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value. And if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/at-its-best-what-art-does-is-it-points-to-who-we-as-human-beings-and/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/my-style-is-in-the-21st-century-if-you-look-at-the-process-it-goes/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-think-the-world-that-i-grew-up-in-was-like-being-in-this-sort-of/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/it-was-something-that-came-sort-of-matter-of-factually-because-there/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/we-re-wired-to-be-empathetic-and-to-care-about-the-needs-of-others/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/painting-is-situational-and-my-particular-situation-exists-within/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/there-were-certain-expectations-that-were-assumed-of-me-as-a-young/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-think-something-that-you-might-be-able-to-locate-in-the-work-that-i/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting with black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-remember-the-first-time-i-went-to-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-believe-that-artists-should-be-part-of-the-culture-i-think-that-my/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-guess-art-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [Just physically, if you looked at the house that I grew up in, my mother created this greenhouse. And surrounded the entire property. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/just-physically-if-you-looked-at-the-house-that-i-grew-up-in-my/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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