Kehinde Wiley Quotes

My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you make drawings for me? Will you make a painting for me?' And it really clicked.

Kehinde Wiley

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• Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • American
  • Impact

• I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Good
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• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Art
  • Business
  • Career

• The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Way
  • Concrete
  • Capability

• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Fortune

• I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Focus
  • Look
  • Looking Forward

• It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Kids

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Two
  • Islam
  • Jews

• Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Country
  • Want

• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Sweats

• I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Trust

• Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fate
  • Existence
  • Nothing

• I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Rock

• I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • May
  • Honor
  • Fight

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Peace
  • Forget
  • Never Forget

• Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Long
  • Society
  • Space

• It is only from the perspective of the outlaw … that we are able to see that mythically informed normality is a form of mass hypnosis.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Perspective

• With ravished earsThe monarch hears;Assumes the god,Affects the nod,And seems to shake the spheres.

  

  John Dryden
  • God

• And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.

  

  Brett Favre
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

  

  Adan Canto
  • People
  • Trying
  • Psychology

• My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you make drawings for me? Will you make a painting for me?' And it really clicked.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Mother