My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Even the hubris or the desire to go out into the world and find patterns that reflect back to yourself is so… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The expectations of the viewer are what you're asking about. And the expectations of the viewer are manifold. However, they are very… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
What we have now is a communication ability. We have the ability to see working ideas that are going on in the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The reality of Barack Obama being the president of the United States - quite possibly the most powerful nation in the world… — 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
What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
By and large, most of the work that we see in the great museums throughout the world are populated with people who… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In a sense, we are all victims of the misogyny and racism that exist in the world, no matter what our gender… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
People who - and I think that's been a huge education for me. I think it's a - it's a privilege to… — 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
