Portraiture Quotes by Kehinde Wiley

9 Portraiture quotes by Kehinde Wiley

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Wiley reimagines the classic portrait with bold color and contemporary subjects. His eight brief statements celebrate how representation reshapes visual storytelling.

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All art is self-portraiture.

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We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I…

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Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at…

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What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we…

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I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the…

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We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of…

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What is portraiture? It's choice. It's the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on…

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I think what's really interesting and useful about this question is that ultimately all art is a type of self-portraiture. And so…

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Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and…

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The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when they rarely…

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At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value. And if…

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My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened,…

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I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.

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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…

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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…

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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 remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting with 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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Just physically, if you looked at the house that I grew up in, my mother created this greenhouse. And surrounded the entire property. And…

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