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Kehinde Wiley - From the Art category:
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Artists category:
Artists are those people who sit at the intersection between the known and unknown, the rational and irrational, coming to terms with some of the confusing histories we, as artists, deal with. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Collectors category:
There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic value. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Communication category:
The whole conversation of my work has to do with power and who has it. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Culture category:
What's interesting about the 21st century is how people deal with cultural history. We don't necessarily feel like there are discrete categories. We consume it as a complete package, whether it's down the street or on the other side of the globe. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Design category:
The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between the figure and the background. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Drawing category:
If people looked at me like I was a little different, I would maybe sit next to them, and I would draw. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Evolution category:
I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Exhibitions category:
If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world. What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Fashion category:
Fashion is fragile and fleeting. But it is also an indicator for the cultural and social appetites for a nation. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Grace category:
If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Greatness category:
What we have now is a communication ability. We have the ability to see working ideas that are going on in the great cities throughout the world and, whether you live in Shanghai or you live in Sao Paulo, you have the ability of seeing and knowing the ideas of some of the greatest minds of our generation. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Growth category:
Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Hope category:
Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Humanity category:
In a sense, we are all victims of the misogyny and racism that exist in the world, no matter what our gender or race happens to be. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Importance category:
I think there's something important in going against the grain and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Language category:
My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Language category:
The language of the heroic is something that has evolved over time. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Painting category:
My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho '50s abstraction that allows paint to sit up on the surface as subject matter about paint. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Painting category:
Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Pattern category:
In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in terms of storytelling and literature. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Politics category:
There is a political and racial context behind everything that I do. Not always because I design it that way, or because I want it that way, but rather because it's just the way people look at the work of an African-American artist in this country. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Portraiture category:
The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming. It doesn't get any better than that. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Portraiture category:
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 just sort of in our DNA. And so portraiture is a very human act. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Practice category:
I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for time immemorial. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Questions category:
I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Revelation category:
What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something that they have never seen before or allows to consider the world in a slightly different way. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Spectator category:
There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have to show up. That is something that is both sad and kind of beautiful about it. It remains analog. It remains special and irreducible. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Style category:
My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken. (Kehinde Wiley)
Kehinde Wiley - From the Technology category:
Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form. (Kehinde Wiley)
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