Best quotes by Kehinde Wiley on Work

Checkout quotes by Kehinde Wiley on Work

  • My work is a contemporary call to arms. It is time to get our mojo back. To rediscover our true north.
    - Kehinde Wiley
  • 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
  • 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.
    - Kehinde Wiley
  • I started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to care about. I, to this day, am thankful to whatever force there is out there that allows me to get away with painting the stories of people like me.
    - Kehinde Wiley
  • Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see those people and how they have been perceived over time.
    - Kehinde Wiley
  • In the end, so much of what I wanted to do was to have a body of work that exhaustively looked at black American notions of masculinity: how we look at black men - how they're perceived in public and private spaces - and to really examine that, going from every possible angle.
    - Kehinde Wiley
  • 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
  • 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