Kehinde Wiley Quotes

The games I'm playing have much more to do with using the language of power and the vocabulary of power to construct new sentences. It's about pointing to empire and control and domination and misogyny and all those social ills in the work, but it's not necessarily taking a position. Oftentimes, it's actually embodying it.

Kehinde Wiley

• Work
• Power
• Control

In the end, what I'm trying to say as a person who does all this travel and fashions these images is that you arrive at an approximate location but never one destination.

Kehinde Wiley

• Trying
• Travel

Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see those people and how they have been perceived over time.

Kehinde Wiley

• People
• Time
• Work

The language of the heroic is something that has evolved over time.

Kehinde Wiley

• Time