What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
You know, the process, I think, is the story. And it goes back, again, to what I said about chance and about… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think that at its best you just have to respect each arena for what they can do well. — 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
He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well. — 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
![“[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost interest and went more towards literature and then medicine and then business and so on. But for me it became something that I did well. And it felt great being able to make something look like…” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/221/kehinde-wiley-1194_able_my-twin-brother-he-was-the-star-artist-o_1330091.jpg)
![“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)
