Kehinde Wiley Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mother, Father, Texas

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• At age 20 I went to go find my father in Nigeria. And after much toil, I finally figured out exactly where he was. And there's something about seeing your father for the first time - my mother destroyed all pictures of him.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mother, Father, Age

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mother, Art, Educational

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• Just physically, if you looked at the house that I grew up in, my mother created this greenhouse. And surrounded the entire property. And there was, like, trees and sculptures and like - it was, like, this crazy, like, secret garden space.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mother, Crazy, Garden

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in the forests outside of Leningrad.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mother, Art, Russia

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And a lot of them were reiterations of classic works.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mother, Art, Years

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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