One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got … - Kehinde Wiley

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I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

Kehinde Wiley

One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing in the ability to engage the world in all of its myriad purposes, transformations, and incarnations.

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I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.

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There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.

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Can I - do I have to be obsessed with it and proceed from that? Not always. But when I'm on top of my game, I definitely think about the way that the world sees me and the way that the world thinks about painting. You must.

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It was probably one of the things that gave me a sense of possibility and allowed for me to see beyond the small community that I existed within. You know, I was making friends with young Soviet kids. this is during perestroika. You know, there's bread lines and vodka lines. The entire social structure of what was then the Soviet Union was radically different from what we know today.

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I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.

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