Kehinde Wiley Quotes

At the core, every artist, no matter what his subject matter happens to be, has to be someone doing the looking. I began to really interrogate the act of looking.

Kehinde Wiley

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• Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Best
  • Unexpected

• I grew up as a country boy.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Country
  • Boy

• What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Love
  • Religion
  • For Her

• I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Family

• Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Together
  • Help
  • Waiting

• At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Phase
  • Autographs

• There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Different
  • Like
  • Working

• I specifically had my son wear a Browns jersey on the streets of Pittsburgh while we were there.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • Son
  • Streets
  • While

• I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Thought
  • Stars

• If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • People
  • Belief
  • Islam

• Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Never
  • Better
  • Movies

• If I feel like I need a little color, I'll get a natural spray tan. Not only does this give me a little extra coverage, but it also allows me to achieve the bronzed look I want without the sun damage.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Want
  • Me
  • Feel

• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Action
  • Ethical
  • Pragmatic

• There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Times

• I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.

  

  Imelda May
  • Home
  • Myself
  • Walking

• This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Politics
  • Separate
  • Match

• My preference is not to fight a Mexican.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Fight
  • Mexican
  • Preference

• There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Rule

• I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Miss

• My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I just like doing things from my own head.

  

  Andrea Arnold

• I was about 12 or 13 years old. I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend ,just as if it were a novel, very rapidly, and I've never gotten over the shock of it. The miracles, the inconsistencies, the improbabilities, the impossibilities, the wretched history, the sordid sex, the sadism in it - the whole thing shocked me profoundly.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Up
  • History
  • Sex

• At the core, every artist, no matter what his subject matter happens to be, has to be someone doing the looking. I began to really interrogate the act of looking.

  

  Kehinde Wiley