There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you. That's the magic of painting.
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.
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.
You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting.
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.
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.
