--- title: "4 Fixed Quotes By Kehinde Wiley" description: "4 Fixed quotes by Kehinde Wiley. Plus more from Kehinde Wiley and more Fixed sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e2/kehinde-wiley-1194_antisocial_i-love-the-of-dealing-with-the-homoeroti_2360585.jpg" --- > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e2/kehinde-wiley-1194_antisocial_i-love-the-of-dealing-with-the-homoeroti_2360585.jpg) > [I had no idea about where I was going. I had no sense of art as anything other than a problem to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-had-no-idea-about-where-i-was-going-i-had-no-sense-of-art-as/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/301/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_i-had-no-idea-about-where-i-was-going-i_2643956.jpg) > [Even the hubris or the desire to go out into the world and find patterns that reflect back to yourself is so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/even-the-hubris-or-the-desire-to-go-out-into-the-world-and-find/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cad/kehinde-wiley-1194_desire_even-the-hubris-or-the-desire-to-go-out_2756409.jpg) > [The expectations of the viewer are what you're asking about. And the expectations of the viewer are manifold. However, they are very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/the-expectations-of-the-viewer-are-what-you-re-asking-about-and-the/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_the-expectations-of-the-viewer-are-what_2830627.jpg) ## Other authors on Fixed ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fixed/kehinde-wiley/#itemlist", "name": "4 Fixed Quotes By Kehinde Wiley", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I love the of dealing with the homoerotic versus the idea of dealing with certain tropes with regards to black masculinity in the world, propensity towards sports, antisocial behavior, hypersexuality - all of these sort of non-truths that I don't exist in but that I see as being fixed in the world's imagination.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kehinde Wiley" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-love-the-of-dealing-with-the-homoerotic-versus-the-idea-of-dealing/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e2/kehinde-wiley-1194_antisocial_i-love-the-of-dealing-with-the-homoeroti_2360585.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e2/kehinde-wiley-1194_antisocial_i-love-the-of-dealing-with-the-homoeroti_2360585.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e2/kehinde-wiley-1194_antisocial_i-love-the-of-dealing-with-the-homoeroti_2360585.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I love the of dealing with the homoerotic versus the idea of dealing with certain tropes with regards to…” — Kehinde Wiley", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I had no idea about where I was going. 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