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
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
On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I enjoy Chicago as one of the great American cities. When I come here and take a taxi from the airport, I… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Even the hubris or the desire to go out into the world and find patterns that reflect back to yourself is so… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I happen to be a twin. I grew up half of my life with someone who looks and sounds like me. And… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would… — 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
