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title: "5 Location Quotes By Kehinde Wiley"
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> [When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/when-we-talk-about-orientalist-painting-we-re-talking-about-painting/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27f/kehinde-wiley-1194_artist_when-we-talk-about-orientalist-painting_291972.jpg)

> [Women are expected to identify gender as a starting point. Ethnicities are expected to identify that as a location. Is it ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/women-are-expected-to-identify-gender-as-a-starting-point-ethnicities/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa0/kehinde-wiley-1194_absolute-freedom_women-are-expected-to-identify-gender-as_942442.jpg)

> [I noticed that the work of my non - I noticed that the work of my friends who were white and male,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-noticed-that-the-work-of-my-non-i-noticed-that-the-work-of-my/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f62/kehinde-wiley-1194_assumption_i-noticed-that-the-work-of-my-non-i-noti_967319.jpg)

> [It felt really radically uncomfortable. And I was really not sure at first about releasing that body of work. But then the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/it-felt-really-radically-uncomfortable-and-i-was-really-not-sure-at/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/kehinde-wiley-1194_body_it-felt-really-radically-uncomfortable-a_1740155.jpg)

> [If I have the same plan to go into the streets, find random strangers, use art-historical referent from their - from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/if-i-have-the-same-plan-to-go-into-the-streets-find-random-strangers/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6d/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_if-i-have-the-same-plan-to-go-into-the-s_2074881.jpg)

## Other authors on Location

## 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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