Author: Kehinde Wiley

Quotes

The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when they rarely do, they try to problematize it.

The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when they rarely do, they try to problematize it.

- Kehinde Wiley

There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you. That's the magic of painting.

There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you. That's the magic of painting.

- Kehinde Wiley

Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.

Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.

- Kehinde Wiley

You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.

You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.

- Kehinde Wiley

Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.

Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.

- Kehinde Wiley

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.

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

So much of the history of painting is the propaganda of self-aggrandizement.

So much of the history of painting is the propaganda of self-aggrandizement.

- Kehinde Wiley

My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you make drawings for me? Will you make a painting for me?' And it really clicked.

My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you make drawings for me? Will you make a painting for me?' And it really clicked.

- Kehinde Wiley

Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance.

Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance.

- Kehinde Wiley

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