Kehinde Quotes

#1. Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of traveling to distant lands.

Umberto Eco

#2. Give me women, wine and snuff
Until I cry out 'hold, enough!'
You may do so san objection
Till the day of resurrection;
For bless my beard then aye shall be
My beloved Trinity.

John Keats

#3. I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

Kehinde Wiley

#4. When I was young, I was in a hurry to live. And now I'm just not in a hurry.

Rhys Ifans

#5. I think that's kind of indicative of a type of self-confidence that people develop when they recognize their own ability to create.

Kehinde Wiley

#6. The war seemed a curse. But now it's a blessing, because it brought you to me.

Paulo Coelho

#7. I used to be someone.

Mary E. Pearson

#8. 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

#9. Tomorrow always has the potential for sunshine.

Kehinde Sonola

#10. Thank you Earth for I've never known a better friend

Kehinde Sonola

#11. Moving therefore from an original center, the sexual engagements of infinite players have no standards, no ideals, no marks of success or failure. Neither orgasm nor conception is a goal in their play, although either may be part of the play.

James P. Carse

#12. It would be comforting if love were an energy source which continued to glow after our deaths.

Julian Barnes

#13. We are but a speck in the Universe
Oh, but what a lucky speck to be ...

Kehinde Sonola

#14. Of all the issues we are concerned with at present, the most basic issue, in my estimation, is that of human-earth relations.

Thomas Berry

#15. This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules.

Kehinde Wiley

#16. Everyone has to work where he is able to maximize what he has been given to the fullest.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

Sam Levenson

#18. I am The Dragon
And I have come!

Kehinde Sonola

#19. I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.

Ansel Adams

#20. That's the thing about love
It can take you up to the mountaintop and can drop you
And the impact will either kill you or make you a new person

Kehinde Sonola

#21. The more people know, the more people share. The more people improve the quality of their lives, the more they'll talk to other people about it, and then they'll help each other.

Louise Hay

#22. 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

#23. I think there's something important in going against the grain, and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.

Kehinde Wiley

#24. That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence.

Kehinde Wiley