I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
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
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
Going back to that idea that painting sits still and that we give ourselves over to it over time. There's a difference… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
You know, the process, I think, is the story. And it goes back, again, to what I said about chance and about… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There are just so many different types of people that come into my studio, and secondarily, there's the idea of ideation, like,… — 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
I love the of dealing with the homoerotic versus the idea of dealing with certain tropes with regards to black masculinity in… — 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
I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
What we have now is a communication ability. We have the ability to see working ideas that are going on in the… — 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
