If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I studied shades, textures by painting after the Old Masters, the classical European paintings, as part of my educational process. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think that gave rise to the type of practice that I - that I do now. I think it was informed… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
You know, one of my - one of my best and, I think, most enlightening moments was when I was contacted by… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
What's great about it is that painting doesn't move. And so in the 21st century, when we're used to clicking and browsing… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Unlike the background in many of the paintings that I was inspired by or paintings that I borrowed poses from - the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I'm like a gypsy. I've got a place in Beijing, a place in New York, a place in west Africa; I'm working… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Can I - do I have to be obsessed with it and proceed from that? Not always. But when I'm on top… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I was trying. I was crawling. I was coming into myself. I was trying to in some ways get beyond - what… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very… — 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
While it may seem a little mundane, the material realities of realizing the painting actually have a lot to do with how… — 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've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have… — 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
