Artist Quote by Kehinde Wiley

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

“The bittersweet side of appreciating life's most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing.”

— Marc Parent

There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how…

— Anne Roiphe

Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life...

— Emily Giffin

“And the pomegranates,/ like memories, are bittersweet/ as we huddle together,/ remembering just how good/ life used to be”

— Guadalupe Garcia McCall