Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Painting from life is a completely different monster, which I like. But because I've been painting from photography for so long, I've… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Feudal Europe is over, but it found its way into film culture. It found its way into postmodern painting culture, and we're… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming. It… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I pay my models to work with me, so there becomes this weird sort of economic bartering thing, which made me feel… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware… — 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 started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
While I can hire out the portrait, I don't, because it's just - that's where I shine. You know, that's my blood… — 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
In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
You know, I'm incredibly blessed to be able to have this level of choice as an artist today. In this economy, it's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend. — 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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