"In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says."

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Kehinde Wiley

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“Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: 'Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.'”

Source : Halford Edward Luccock (1956). “Unfinished Business: Short Diversions on Religious Themes”
“I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin.”
“I lived through the Cold War as a child, and we always thought a nuclear bomb could end life everywhere at any time. On one hand, it created an atmosphere where you lived for the moment - because it could end at any second - but on the other, it warped a generation into thinking t there was no reasonable expectation of building a future that could be vaporized at any moment by a few morons.”
“It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.”

Source : "Kathie Lee Returns to TV on 'The Insider'" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 16, 2005.
“Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.”
“To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.”
“... the Lord Jesus said, 'To those who are in bonds, Come out, and to those who are in prison, Go forth' (Isa. 49:9); so your sins are forgiven. All, then, are forgiven, nor is there any one whom He has not loosed. For thus it is written, that He has forgiven 'all transgressions, doing away with the handwriting of the ordinance that was against us' (Col. 2:13-14). Why, then, do we hold the bonds of others, while we enjoy our own remission? He, who forgave all, required of all that what every one remembers to have been forgiven to himself, he also should forgive others.”
“You have to be who you are, and hopefully they dig it”

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