"In the Studio Museum in Harlem, when I was dealing with that community and dealing with my peers in the streets, it allowed for me to get outside of Yale, to get outside of art-speak, and to really think about art as a material practice that has very useful and pragmatic material precedent."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Yale Quotes

“You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.”
“I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong.”
“It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.”
“Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.”
“The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness can shine through.”
“I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . .”
“If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 20, 2014
“I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.”

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