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I love being a portraitist.
All art is self-portraiture.
I love being able to have a team.
I've fished everywhere I've traveled.
As a twin, I operate with twin desires.
I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.
I try to create a place of disorientation.
My love affair with painting is bittersweet.
The artists ultimately respond to the public.
You have to bring books to explain your work.
At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.
We all look at the same object in different ways.
You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting.
I think it would be really interesting to paint Obama.
Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.
I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.
I rarely meet a lot of the people who buy and collect my work.
There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los Angeles].
I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.
I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.
How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?
I need to open a restaurant, a big soul food restaurant in Beijing!
The language of the heroic is something that has evolved over time.
Your best as an artist is to create something that resonates for you.
There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe.
I actually studied cooking and, like, was thinking about becoming a chef.
Once I get a project in my head, I start getting really obsessive about it.
I think it's possible to allow an artist to go beyond his borders and play.
So much of the history of painting is the propaganda of self-aggrandizement.
I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.
I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.
Europe has been a place of refuge. Why should it stop with black and brown bodies?
It's so easy just to see the one-to-one narrative between presence and non-presence.
I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.
That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting.
I think that at its best you just have to respect each arena for what they can do well.
He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well.
I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.
I thought I'd be a chef by night and paint by day. Now I just have fabulous dinner parties.
Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.
Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.
I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.
I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.
I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.
The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.
I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.
Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.
One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.
I think that the Kehinde Wiley brand is something that I'm working towards expanding and to inclusion.
My work is a contemporary call to arms. It is time to get our mojo back. To rediscover our true north.