"My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity."

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Source: Kanye West Lectures at Oxford, Discusses Grammys, Nicki Minaj, The Matrix by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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