The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?
The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.
Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.
Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.
There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.
I would rather be fooled than not believe.
Directors always used to be like the police to me - the enemy, the people to tell me what to do when I didn't want to do it. But I've lived with one for a while now and I guess I can put myself more in their position. You shouldn't be too sympathetic to them.
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.