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The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.
Kehinde Wiley
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Kehinde Wiley
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 28
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I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.
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I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.
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Most people say, Hell, no. I don't know who you are. This scares me. Like, I'm not interested in this.Another way of looking at these paintings is, these are the guys who said yes.
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I've had moments where I've met people who were complete, like, idiots, who could not understand visual culture to save their lives.
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I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.
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He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well.
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People who - and I think that's been a huge education for me. I think it's a - it's a privilege to be able to meet such a broad cross-section of New York and increasingly the world, and to get a feel of how people respond to visual culture.
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I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.
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The ability to look at certain patterns with regards to urban fashion, with regards to swagger, with regards to cultural hegemony, with regards to the ways in which young people look at resistance culture as a pattern that should be mimicked and admired.
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There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically important to me.
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