Artist Quotes
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I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.
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The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.
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Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.
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A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.
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Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly." I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.
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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
