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Stained glass is unique from the outside, but as a painting insider, I know that oil painting's all about light. And it's about the depiction of light, the way that it bounces off different types of skin, different landscapes. The mastery of that light is the obsession of most of my painter friends.
— Kehinde Wiley
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The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
— Kehinde Wiley
Tags: moment, you, art, beauty
My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others.
— Kehinde Wiley
Tags: world, mother, you, me
You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting.
— Kehinde Wiley
Tags: hire, painting, you
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
Tags: someone, doing, looking, matter
In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in terms of storytelling and literature.
— Kehinde Wiley
Tags: storytelling, seen, theory, literature, aesthetic
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