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title: "2 Visual Culture Quotes By Kehinde Wiley"
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> [I've had moments where I've met people who were complete, like, idiots, who could not understand visual culture to save their lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-ve-had-moments-where-i-ve-met-people-who-were-complete-like-idiots/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f37/kehinde-wiley-1194_culture_i-ve-had-moments-where-i-ve-met-people-w_2865259.jpg)

> [People who - and I think that's been a huge education for me. I think it's a - it's a privilege to be able to meet such a broad cross-section of New York and increasingly the world, and to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/people-who-and-i-think-that-s-been-a-huge-education-for-me-i-think-it/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/676/kehinde-wiley-1194_able_people-who-and-i-think-that-s-been-a-hug_3236695.jpg)

## More by Kehinde Wiley

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/much-like-teaching-art-to-young-art-students-age-10-to-15-or-so-on/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when they rarely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/the-erotic-and-the-art-historical-imagination-is-something-that-gets/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/one-of-the-weirdest-things-that-happened-to-artists-and-art-criticism/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value. And if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/at-its-best-what-art-does-is-it-points-to-who-we-as-human-beings-and/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/my-style-is-in-the-21st-century-if-you-look-at-the-process-it-goes/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-think-the-world-that-i-grew-up-in-was-like-being-in-this-sort-of/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/it-was-something-that-came-sort-of-matter-of-factually-because-there/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/we-re-wired-to-be-empathetic-and-to-care-about-the-needs-of-others/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/painting-is-situational-and-my-particular-situation-exists-within/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/there-were-certain-expectations-that-were-assumed-of-me-as-a-young/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-think-something-that-you-might-be-able-to-locate-in-the-work-that-i/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting with black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-remember-the-first-time-i-went-to-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-believe-that-artists-should-be-part-of-the-culture-i-think-that-my/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-guess-art-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

> [Just physically, if you looked at the house that I grew up in, my mother created this greenhouse. And surrounded the entire property. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/just-physically-if-you-looked-at-the-house-that-i-grew-up-in-my/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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