"If I have the same plan to go into the streets, find random strangers, use art-historical referent from their - from the specific location, to use decorative patterns from this location, that's a rule. That's a set of patterns that you can apply to all societies. But what gives rise or what comes out of each experiment is so radically different."

-- Kehinde Wiley

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“Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.”
“Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away”
“Spiritual destiny is manifested in the lives of those who stand out from the masses and actually do something, who live a creative life for the benefit of others.”
“In all that was to happen, there would be that feeling of inevitability and rightness, and the sense that the universe was conspiring in it. It would be easy.”
“Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.”
“Just remember, their fans think their players are supermen. We'll we're the kryptonite, and we're going to win.”
“If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.”
“It's often only other people who notice you have a signature style. I don't think I've got one, though other people tell me I do.”

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