He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well.

You know, I'm incredibly blessed to be able to have this level of choice as an artist today. In this economy, it's something that I, you know, pinch myself at constantly, just thinking about how I could wake up tomorrow and decide I'm going to start painting this or that. So it's good.

I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.

There's always a tug of war. Like, in the States, in America, there's certainly a higher quotient, I would imagine, of, like, macho, like, masculinity posturing.

I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.

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.

When you're at your best, you're analyzing yourself and becoming increasingly isolated from a broader narrative.