Kehinde Wiley Quotes

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.

Kehinde Wiley

Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance.

Kehinde Wiley

Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.

Kehinde Wiley

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.

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