--- title: "15 Young Quotes By Kehinde Wiley" description: "15 Young quotes by Kehinde Wiley. Plus more from Kehinde Wiley and more Young sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef2/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_i-think-that-just-the-nature-of-art-educ_1102601.jpg" --- > [I think that just the nature of art education in schools, it's about packs, you know? Like, we're young wolves running together,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-think-that-just-the-nature-of-art-education-in-schools-it-s-about/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef2/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_i-think-that-just-the-nature-of-art-educ_1102601.jpg) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d63/kehinde-wiley-1194_20th-century_there-were-certain-expectations-that-wer_77672.jpg) > [My peers at the time: you know, young black kids from off the streets of Harlem, having these conversations with me in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/my-peers-at-the-time-you-know-young-black-kids-from-off-the-streets/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5a/kehinde-wiley-1194_black_my-peers-at-the-time-you-know-young-blac_285307.jpg) > [Gauguin is creepy - let's just face it. He goes off into the Pacific, and he's looking at these young girls, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/gauguin-is-creepy-let-s-just-face-it-he-goes-off-into-the-pacific-and/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc3/kehinde-wiley-1194_creepy_gauguin-is-creepy-let-s-just-face-it-he_2659533.jpg) > [I know how young black men are seen. They're boys - scared little boys, oftentimes. I was one of them. I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-know-how-young-black-men-are-seen-they-re-boys-scared-little-boys/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/kehinde-wiley-1194_little-boys_i-know-how-young-black-men-are-seen-they_2357956.jpg) > [I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-was-recently-in-israel-doing-my-work-and-casting-for-models-in-the/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef1/kehinde-wiley-1194_bob_i-was-recently-in-israel-doing-my-work-a_3029731.jpg) > [And as a young black man, a lot of my professors would really think that it was useful to see the work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/and-as-a-young-black-man-a-lot-of-my-professors-would-really-think/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28e/kehinde-wiley-1194_black_and-as-a-young-black-man-a-lot-of-my-pro_1553620.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/what-s-interesting-about-young-black-american-artists-within-the/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c03/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_what-s-interesting-about-young-black-ame_1089514.jpg) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cf/kehinde-wiley-1194_ability_the-ability-to-look-at-certain-patterns_457104.jpg) > [That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/that-s-partly-the-success-of-my-work-the-ability-to-have-a-young/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3e/kehinde-wiley-1194_ability_that-s-partly-the-success-of-my-work-the_724427.jpg) > [I enjoy Chicago as one of the great American cities. When I come here and take a taxi from the airport, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-enjoy-chicago-as-one-of-the-great-american-cities-when-i-come-here/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/853/kehinde-wiley-1194_airports_i-enjoy-chicago-as-one-of-the-great-amer_1963141.jpg) > [It was probably one of the things that gave me a sense of possibility and allowed for me to see beyond the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/it-was-probably-one-of-the-things-that-gave-me-a-sense-of-possibility/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/978/kehinde-wiley-1194_bread_it-was-probably-one-of-the-things-that-g_1532409.jpg) > [Whereas I remember being in Dakar, in Senegal, where I have my third studio, and street casting, and I remember looking at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/whereas-i-remember-being-in-dakar-in-senegal-where-i-have-my-third/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9aa/kehinde-wiley-1194_book_whereas-i-remember-being-in-dakar-in-sen_2503496.jpg) > [I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-think-at-the-l-a-county-museum-of-art-i-saw-my-first-example-of/) [Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a08/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_i-think-at-the-l-a-county-museum-of-art_1563358.jpg) > [Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/585/kehinde-wiley-1194_age_much-like-teaching-art-to-young-art-stud_3799.jpg) ## Other authors on Young ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/young/kehinde-wiley/#itemlist", "name": "15 Young Quotes By Kehinde Wiley", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think that just the nature of art education in schools, it's about packs, you know? Like, we're young wolves running together, creating a consensus. 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