"That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence."

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Source : Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

Kehinde Wiley

#Girl Quotes #Art Quotes #Museums Quotes

“He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.”
“No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.”
“I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.”
“I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.”
“Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart.”
“It's easy to choose doing what you love when there are people out there supporting you.”

Source : Source: www.thevinyldistrict.com
“A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.”
“The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.”

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