American - Artist | 1977 -
The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about, or even looking at.
Kehinde Wiley
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During 1989, my mother, who was exceedingly good at finding these free programs - you know, we were on welfare, just trying to get through - but she would find these amazing programs. She sent me to the Soviet Union at the age of 12 to go study in the forest of then-Leningrad with 50 other Soviet kids.
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I rarely meet a lot of the people who buy and collect my work.
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Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance.
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I'm like a gypsy. I've got a place in Beijing, a place in New York, a place in west Africa; I'm working on a place in Colombia. I like the fact that painting is portable - and I've wanted my entire life to be able to see the world, to respond to it, and make that my life's work.
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The reality of Barack Obama being the president of the United States - quite possibly the most powerful nation in the world - means that the image of power is completely new for an entire generation of not only black American kids but every population group in this nation.
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The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.
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You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting.
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Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society.
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What is portraiture? It's choice. It's the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on your own terms.
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I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.
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I'm about looking at each of those perceived menacing black men that you see in the streets all over the place, people that you oftentimes will walk past without assuming that they have the same humanity, fears that we all do.
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