I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I create something that means something to me, to the world, and try to do my best. I can't fix everything. — 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
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 would imagine that what you try to do is to - is to be as sensitive to the environment that surrounds… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes constrained by the expectation that the work should be solely political. I try to create a type of work… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I had no idea about where I was going. I had no sense of art as anything other than a problem to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
That's what I think my job in the world has been, is to sort of try to sit silently a bit 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
![“That's what I think my job in the world has been, is to sort of try to sit silently a bit and watch it all sort of move and see those small, quiet details, whether it be a small village outside of Colombo [country?] or the favelas of Brazil, where, again, resistance culture is something that you…” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa7/kehinde-wiley-1194_bits_that-s-what-i-think-my-job-in-the-world_2937965.jpg)
