Quotes About Art

My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.

I love hip-hop, but hip-hop is a way of life.

Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.

This idea that my work is about hip-hop is a little reductive. What I'm interested in is the performance of masculinity, the performance of ethnicity, and how they intermingle across cultures.

There is very little room for humor and personality in hip-hop.

Every generation wants that real hip-hop. And I've always been able to bring that.

I've always been a writer. I've always done writing or spoken-word, hip-hop stuff with my friends.

As a lover of both hip-hop and jazz, I feel like much of the latter community still doesn't truly embrace hip-hop as a musical extension.

I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

Hip-hop music was our life.

I honestly now know that I'm the physical embodiment of hip-hop on earth. That's my only purpose here on earth is to keep the culture together long enough for it to remain everything that we thought it could be when I was coming up.

I love hip-hop.

I'm a fan of hip-hop as a whole, period. I love hip-hop. I look at it as a study and I love it.

I like hip-hop music.

I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily.

They don't send people from large corporations to hire people to make sculptures.

I'm convinced that I've been hired for jobs because I can cry on cue.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

I usually turn over when ads appear on television. But - very rarely - I am gripped by a particularly beautiful one, and wonder if art historians of the future will point to these televisual delights as our best art.

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

Without the knowledge of music, it would be very hard to write film music. There are so many films, and each one has a different historical background and everything.

I turned to historical films because they pass censors more easily.

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture.