What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in..

It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library of art history books in my studio. And I would ….

It's a culture. It's - I mean, people obsess over this. And people create subcultures that identify - and there are people in the streets who will re….

Your best as an artist is to create something that resonates for you..

So sometimes you have to play your hand and sort of push in a direction. And I think that masculinity is the driving point for a lot of the way that ….

One of my most strong memories was studying with Mel Bochner, one of the, I think, high water marks of American conceptual art..

My peers at the time: you know, young black kids from off the streets of Harlem, having these conversations with me in my small, dirty little studio ….

So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in my career, I asked myself, "Wh….

My assistants generally do all the flowers and all of the decorative work. I concentrate on the figure..

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

For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence..

We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's just sort of in our DNA. ….

This is - it's a sociological experiment in many ways. And so you're seeing the results of what happens when you put a lot of boys in a room looking ….

I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn Museum [Brooklyn, NY] And I'd ….

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist..

It was something that came sort of matter-of-factually. Because there - it's like really - real honest engagement with the people around me and just ….

That's what I think my job in the world has been, is to sort of try to sit silently a bit and watch it all sort of move and see those small, quiet de….

It felt really radically uncomfortable. And I was really not sure at first about releasing that body of work. But then the more I thought about it, t….

I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware of the mechanisms that gave rise ….

I've had moments where I've met people who were complete, like, idiots, who could not understand visual culture to save their lives..

There's always a tug of war. Like, in the States, in America, there's certainly a higher quotient, I would imagine, of, like, macho, like, masculinit….