"I'd like to walk that fine line between the authentic artist self and the manufactured artist self. I'd like to exist outside of a set of expectations or assumptions about what the Kehinde Wiley brand is. And I'd like to walk towards something that's a bit more unpredictable, human."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Artist Quotes #Self Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.”
“He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.”
“I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.”
“There were radio shows where you actually got to hear people play off of each other and get that immediate magic that goes on. And rather than doing what a lot of shows do, where an individual comes in, reads their part, and you edit it together later on and try to build a performance, we're lucky because this is really very much a theatrical performance that is going on, every single week.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.”
“Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.”

Source : "Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.
“An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.”
“I done told you twice already goddammit no!”

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