Kehinde Wiley Quotes

#1. I think it's important to be yourself and not try and emulate someone else's look.

Jade Jagger

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

Kehinde Wiley

#3. I'm not really a first-move kind of gal.

Katherine Heigl

#4. Your only limitation in life is the limitation of your mind.

Sunday Adelaja

#5. When you're on TV, you're looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it's on TV, I've already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Joy is the reward of life

Sunday Adelaja

#9. However thankful we may be for all our personal pleasures, we mustn't for a moment lose sight of the great things that we're living for, and they must shed light rather than gloom on your joy.

Eric Metaxas

#10. Believe it or not, I make myself laugh. Sometimes when I have thoughts or say some things that are funny, it just makes me laugh, and I don't mind laughing at it before you guys do.

Kevin Hart

#11. 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

#12. The best part is the fans loving you. And the free clothes.

Britney Spears

#13. Telimektar son of Tulkas is with those noble ones, and his face and weapons gleam as silver in the dark,

Anonymous

#14. Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.

Jim Stovall

#15. Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

Paul Gauguin

#16. She watched the moon, whose radiance stained with primrose the purple of the surrounding sky. In England the moon had seemed dead and alien; here she was caught in the shawl of night together with earth and all the other stars.

E. M. Forster

#17. architecture to spiritually uplift and thought it was a very bad idea to build functional, uninspired blocks of flats that would depress both their inhabitants and society at large. And,

Menna Van Praag

#18. There's a McDonalds in Hong Kong & they're offering couples the opportunity to get married. You can have a McWedding.

Chelsea Handler

#19. My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like the Daddy Day Care dad.

Eddie Murphy

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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