Mean Quotes by Kehinde Wiley

10 Mean quotes by Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley looks at meanness through the lens of visual storytelling, delivering ten compact thoughts that echo the power of representation to challenge unkind narratives.

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I create something that means something to me, to the world, and try to do my best. I can't fix everything.

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Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is…

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Usually I bring very attractive women with me to excite interest. I mean, it's a type of, like, strangers-with-candy situation.

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I mean, the radical contingency that is - that exists and the fact that I'm going into the streets and finding random…

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It's a culture. It's - I mean, people obsess over this. And people create subcultures that identify - and there are people…

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In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say,…

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I was trying. I was crawling. I was coming into myself. I was trying to in some ways get beyond - what…

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It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library…

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Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative…

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I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've…

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Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

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There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

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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…

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I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.

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I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

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