"Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects."
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"The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education."
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"Older generations can sometimes look down on today's hip hop but I refuse that mindset. I remember how hurt I was when older people told me that Run-D.M.C. was jungle music or that it was not music at all. Or that LL Cool J was not art."
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"Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes."
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"Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a way, it validated our existence, our culture. He used the language of the street at the time and made it art. Art tends to be validating."
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"They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him."
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"Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man."
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"I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee."
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"But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt."
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"You always feel quite vulnerable when you're naked on a set. You feel quite silly, actually. And with the green screen around you, it's not that sexy. But, it looks stunning. It's art. It's not vulgar. It's not indecent. It's not realistic. It's beautiful, I think."
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"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
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"In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of Western culture is in the centuries when Christianism was dominant and was present in almost all works of art - not only liturgical works, but also literature and music. Yes, it's important to have that in our present. It doesn't mean that people have to adhere to a dogma or practice a religion, but it's part of our heritage, and you have to at least try to understand it. Otherwise you can't be a modern person."
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"I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose."
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"There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are given kind of one pathway to that dance, and that's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I can get there. I can't do it through art, I can't do it through singing, I can't do it through mothering, I can't do it through invention."
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"Never go into debt to become a writer. Always find other ways to support yourself so you can do the work you truly love for the right reasons. Never ask your art to support you. If you ask your art to support you it will either end up comprised or you'll be disappointed with it. It's a lot to ask of creativity for it to provide for you financially. Find a scrappy way to get by and then do the work you love for the reasons you love."
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"Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad. Write yourself blind. Trust the excitement that builds within you when the idea is good and the writing is superb. You can do it, but that's the hell of it as well as the exultation of it. You have to do it."
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"There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks."
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"Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway."
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"Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words."
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"Music is a savage art, a measured madness."
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