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Once I get a project in my head, I start getting really obsessive about it.
Quote by -Kehinde Wiley
For years, I've been painting black men as a way to respond to the reality of the streets. I've asked black men to show up in my studio in the clothes that they want to be wearing. And often times, those clothes would be the same trappings people would see on television and find menacing.
Quote by -Kehinde Wiley
At the core, every artist, no matter what his subject matter happens to be, has to be someone doing the looking. I began to really interrogate the act of looking.
Quote by -Kehinde Wiley
What you have in my work is one person's path as he travels through the world, and there is no limitation of what is conceivable.
Quote by -Kehinde Wiley
It's so easy just to see the one-to-one narrative between presence and non-presence.
Quote by -Kehinde Wiley
What I try to do is defy expectations in terms of boundaries, whether it is high or low art, pop culture, or fine-art culture. My work is about reconciling myriad cultural influences and bringing them into one picture.
Quote by -Kehinde Wiley
Europe has been a place of refuge. Why should it stop with black and brown bodies?
Quote by -Kehinde Wiley
Fashion is fragile and fleeting. But it is also an indicator for the cultural and social appetites for a nation.
Quote by -Kehinde Wiley
It's sad, the enslavement of the black underclass to designer labels - we're an age that cares more about Versace than Vermeer.
Quote by -Kehinde Wiley
My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world.
Quote by -Kehinde Wiley