Kehinde Wiley Quotes About Expectations

Quotes about: Expectations

• There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Artist, Expectations, Black

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• The expectations of the viewer are what you're asking about. And the expectations of the viewer are manifold. However, they are very fixed, given who I am in the world. People have certain expectations of me as an artist.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Artist, Who I Am, People

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• I use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for the great punchline, but also for a great painting, in society.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Color, Expectations, Use

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• Even the hubris or the desire to go out into the world and find patterns that reflect back to yourself is so Lacanian and, like, mirrored, so as to be ridiculous. But there are very fixed sets of expectations that the world has about this work.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Expectations, Desire, World

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• I'd like to walk that fine line between the authentic artist self and the manufactured artist self. I'd like to exist outside of a set of expectations or assumptions about what the Kehinde Wiley brand is. And I'd like to walk towards something that's a bit more unpredictable, human.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Artist, Self, Expectations

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• In America, there's this type of expectation of just-add-water celebrity, this type of, "Of course you found me; we're all going to be famous for 15 minutes," sort of Paris-Hilton-ization of society.

  Kehinde Wiley

  America, Paris, Water

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this expectation of a political corrective that demands that the artist fixes the ills of the world.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Artist, Interesting, Expectations

  Source: www.artpractical.com

• 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.

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