Contemplative Quote 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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 me and…

— 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…

— 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 a black…

— 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…

— Kehinde Wiley