Kehinde Wiley

Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into…

— Kehinde Wiley

The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when…

— Kehinde Wiley

One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing…

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At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value.…

— Kehinde Wiley

My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features…

— Kehinde Wiley

I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.

— 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…

— 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…

— Kehinde Wiley

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

— Kehinde Wiley

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

— 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…

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I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting…

— Kehinde Wiley

I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.

— Kehinde Wiley

I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

— Kehinde Wiley

Just physically, if you looked at the house that I grew up in, my mother created this greenhouse. And surrounded the entire…

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My interest is in completing an image that is spectacular beyond belief. My fidelity is to the image and the art and…

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I like to play with the conventions around what we expect of paintings historically. But I also like to play with the…

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When I'm at my best, I'm trying to destabilize myself and figure out new ways of approaching art as a provocation. I…

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Europe has been a place of refuge. Why should it stop with black and brown bodies?

— Kehinde Wiley

It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library…

— Kehinde Wiley

When you go back to the days when I was studying how to paint, some of the things that excited me most…

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Obama stands as a signal that this nation will continue to redefine what it means to push beyond the borders of what's…

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I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And…

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I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.

— Kehinde Wiley

That's the trouble with, I think, my - the contemporary read of my work. So many people just simply say, "These are…

— Kehinde Wiley