Kehinde Wiley Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Believe, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• 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.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Fashion, People, Culture

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, meeting young Israelis and Palestinians and Falasha, Ethiopian Jews who had migrated to Israel in the '70s. They're obsessed with Bob Marley. They're obsessed with Kanye West. They're obsessed with resistance culture, people who find that they're not necessarily comfortable in their own personal and national skin.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Israel, People, Skins

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• It's a culture. It's - I mean, people obsess over this. And people create subcultures that identify - and there are people in the streets who will recognize certain patterns and signifiers.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mean, People, Culture

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los Angeles].

  Kehinde Wiley

  Culture, Los Angeles, Pedestrians

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• I happen to be a twin. I grew up half of my life with someone who looks and sounds like me. And I believe it's possible to hold twin desires in your head, such as the desire to create painting and destroy painting at once. The desire to look at a black American culture as underserved, in need of representation, a desire to mine that said culture and to lay its parts bare and look at it almost clinically.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Believe, Black, Desire

  Source: www.artpractical.com

• That's what I think my job in the world has been, is to sort of try to sit silently a bit and watch it all sort of move and see those small, quiet details, whether it be a small village outside of Colombo [country?] or the favelas of Brazil, where, again, resistance culture is something that you hear resonating in the streets of South Central Los Angeles as well.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Believe, Artist, Culture

  Source: www.artpractical.com

• There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would be that my work set up certain type of precedent, that allowed for great institutions, museums and viewers to see the possibilities of painting culture to be a bit more inclusive.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Museums, Desire

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• Feudal Europe is over, but it found its way into film culture. It found its way into postmodern painting culture, and we're all here talking about it today. It still lives. I don't believe in ghosts, but these are contemporary ghosts.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Believe, Talking, Europe

  Source: www.artpractical.com

• I've had moments where I've met people who were complete, like, idiots, who could not understand visual culture to save their lives.

  Kehinde Wiley

  People, Culture, Idiot

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• 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.

  Kehinde Wiley

  New York, Thinking, People

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• I feel sometimes constrained by the expectation that the work should be solely political. I try to create a type of work that is at the service of my own set of criteria, which have to do with beauty and a type of utopia that in some ways speaks to the culture I'm located in.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Expectations, Political, Trying

  Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

• Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love being in popular culture and existing in the evolution of popular culture. But it's so different from painting, and it's so different from that sort of slow, contemplative, gradual process that painting is.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Fun, Love Is, Interesting

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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