American - Artist | 1977 -
Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.
Kehinde Wiley
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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.
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Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.
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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 think I am at my best when I push myself into a place where I don't have all the answers.
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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.
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I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.
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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.
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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.
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There is - and always will be - the legacy of chattel slavery in this nation, an obsession with racial and gender differences, but I think that, at its best, this nation is capable of creating standards for itself and reaching towards those standards.
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My love affair with painting is bittersweet.
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We all look at the same object in different ways.
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Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.
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