Kehinde Wiley Quotes

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

I love painting and have a need to do it.

Oh, I paint all the time.

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Color is a passion; painting is a passion.

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

I like to paint - I love arts and crafts.

I used to paint.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.