Kehinde Wiley Quotes
Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
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The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.
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Be an individual. I mean, obviously it's hard for a brand, for a corporation, to have a huge following.
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They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing?
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The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.
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I'm pleased that some economists and sociologists are beginning to talk about, for example, alternative measures of human well-being - alternative, that is, to GDP, on which the world runs.
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In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.
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All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
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Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.
