I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The ability to look at certain patterns with regards to urban fashion, with regards to swagger, with regards to cultural hegemony, with… — 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
There is a political and racial context behind everything that I do. Not always because I design it that way, or because… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
If I were making paintings of a bowl of fruit it would still be viewed through some sort of political lens, because… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
When I look back at my paintings, they don't give me a sense of where I was when I first met that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Mel Bochner was able to give me the tools to look at those types of experiences, register them with my own, but… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to… — 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
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
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