"The expectations of the viewer are what you're asking about. And the expectations of the viewer are manifold. However, they are very fixed, given who I am in the world. People have certain expectations of me as an artist."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Artist Quotes #Who I Am Quotes #People Quotes

“Helping people grow and achieve their dreams is the fastest route to success.”
“I have to reign myself in a lot.”
“Well, you know, I am in the business and I like to promote myself.”
“Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.”
“You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.”
“People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.”
“Libertarianism and communism are equally crazy in opposite ways. Libertarians believe that it is possible to privatize everything without anarchy, while communists believe that it is possible to socialize everything without tyranny.”
“As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis of its authoritarian social program. Indeed, according to Bertram Gross in his startlingly prescient Friendly Fascism (1980), it is possible to achieve fascist goals within an ostensibly democratic society.”

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