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• Kehinde Wiley:

  The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.

• Kehinde Wiley:

  Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

• Kehinde Wiley:

  You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting.

• Kehinde Wiley:

  Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirati

• Kehinde Wiley:

  What is portraiture? It's choice. It's the ability to position your body in the world for the world

• Kehinde Wiley:

  I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the human

• Kehinde Wiley:

  I'm about looking at each of those perceived menacing black men that you see in the streets all ove

• Kehinde Wiley:

  It's amazing how, in New York, there is almost a feeling of entitlement by the public - this very p

• Kehinde Wiley:

  I think there's something important in going against the grain and perhaps finding value in things

• Kehinde Wiley:

  Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.