Kehinde Wiley Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history of painting but also to those people who look and sound like me.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Vocabulary, People, Giving

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• Mel Bochner was able to give me the tools to look at those types of experiences, register them with my own, but also hold them far enough away to see them 360.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Giving, Looks, Able

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• If I have the same plan to go into the streets, find random strangers, use art-historical referent from their - from the specific location, to use decorative patterns from this location, that's a rule. That's a set of patterns that you can apply to all societies. But what gives rise or what comes out of each experiment is so radically different.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Giving, Historical

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• There's a team of filmmakers who follow me in the streets when I'm finding these models, to give me a sense of legitimacy to a casual stranger. This is New York City. No one's going to follow you back to your studio.

  Kehinde Wiley

  New York, Team, Cities

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• Going back to that idea that painting sits still and that we give ourselves over to it over time. There's a difference between living with - imagine if this were sitting in your living room for 15 years. You'd probably understand the contours of it.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Differences, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• When I look back at my paintings, they don't give me a sense of where I was when I first met that guy. They don't give me a sense of what I felt like when I first saw that original source material. They give me a sense of the world that I'm trying to create. And we all just have to deal with that.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Giving, Guy, Trying

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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