This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My peers at the time: you know, young black kids from off the streets of Harlem, having these conversations with me in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see… — 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
Going back to that idea that painting sits still and that we give ourselves over to it over time. There's a difference… — 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… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do was to look at the powerlessness that I felt as - and continue to feel at times… — 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've had moments where I've met people who were complete, like, idiots, who could not understand visual culture to save their lives. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My work is a contemporary call to arms. It is time to get our mojo back. To rediscover our true north. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become… — 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
At age 20 I went to go find my father in Nigeria. And after much toil, I finally figured out exactly where… — 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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