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title: "28 Way Quotes By Kehinde Wiley"
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> [The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/the-way-we-think-about-a-presidential-portrait-is-one-that-is-imbued/)

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

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/we-have-a-lot-of-sort-of-received-historical-ways-of-viewing/)

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

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> [Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/art-is-about-changing-what-we-see-in-our-everyday-lives-and/)

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

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> [This is - it's a sociological experiment in many ways. And so you're seeing the results of what happens when you put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/this-is-it-s-a-sociological-experiment-in-many-ways-and-so-you-re/)

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

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> [My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/my-mother-introduced-to-me-as-a-child-the-world-of-language-the-way/)

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

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> [Most people say, "Hell, no. I don't know who you are. This scares me. Like, I'm not interested in this."Another way of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/most-people-say-hell-no-i-don-t-know-who-you-are-this-scares-me-like/)

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

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> [In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/in-some-way-they-are-all-self-portraits-but-i-think-i-know-what-you/)

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

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> [There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/there-s-nothing-shocking-inherently-about-that-given-that-so-much-of/)

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

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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…](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/)

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> [Feudal Europe is over, but it found its way into film culture. It found its way into postmodern painting culture, and we're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/feudal-europe-is-over-but-it-found-its-way-into-film-culture-it-found/)

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

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> [All the world's a stage. P.T. Barnum: It becomes a circus. But circuses or street pageants or parades have always been useful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/all-the-world-s-a-stage-p-t-barnum-it-becomes-a-circus-but-circuses/)

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

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> [The ability to look at certain patterns with regards to urban fashion, with regards to swagger, with regards to cultural hegemony, with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/the-ability-to-look-at-certain-patterns-with-regards-to-urban-fashion/)

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

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> [I pay my models to work with me, so there becomes this weird sort of economic bartering thing, which made me feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-pay-my-models-to-work-with-me-so-there-becomes-this-weird-sort-of/)

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

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> [There is a political and racial context behind everything that I do. Not always because I design it that way, or because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/there-is-a-political-and-racial-context-behind-everything-that-i-do/)

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

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> [Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/like-commercial-stuff-is-sort-of-cheap-and-disposable-and-fun-and-can/)

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

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> [Can I - do I have to be obsessed with it and proceed from that? Not always. But when I'm on top…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/can-i-do-i-have-to-be-obsessed-with-it-and-proceed-from-that-not/)

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

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> [I was trying. I was crawling. I was coming into myself. I was trying to in some ways get beyond - what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-was-trying-i-was-crawling-i-was-coming-into-myself-i-was-trying-to/)

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

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> [So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/so-much-of-my-work-is-defined-by-the-difference-between-the-figure-in/)

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

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> [I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-think-didactic-art-is-boring-i-mean-i-love-it-in-terms-of-like-some/)

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

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> [When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/when-we-talk-about-orientalist-painting-we-re-talking-about-painting/)

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

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> [There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/there-s-always-a-joy-in-newness-as-a-painter-and-in-sub-saharan/)

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

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> [Let's talk about the artist's desire to go beyond the pictorial or the representational and the desire to create the abstract -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/let-s-talk-about-the-artist-s-desire-to-go-beyond-the-pictorial-or/)

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

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> [So sometimes you have to play your hand and sort of push in a direction. And I think that masculinity is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/so-sometimes-you-have-to-play-your-hand-and-sort-of-push-in-a/)

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

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> [If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/if-art-can-be-at-the-service-of-anything-it-s-about-letting-us-see-a/)

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

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> [I feel sometimes constrained by the expectation that the work should be solely political. I try to create a type of work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-feel-sometimes-constrained-by-the-expectation-that-the-work-should/)

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

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> [I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-think-that-at-its-best-painting-can-be-an-act-of-juggling/)

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

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> [Like, the smells and the sights and the sounds. As an artist, you want to sort of be able to engage that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/like-the-smells-and-the-sights-and-the-sounds-as-an-artist-you-want/)

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

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> [What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/what-i-love-in-art-is-that-it-takes-known-combinations-and-reorders/)

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

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## Other authors on Way

## 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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