"Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love being in popular culture and existing in the evolution of popular culture. But it's so different from painting, and it's so different from that sort of slow, contemplative, gradual process that painting is."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Fun Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“Do you think you can love too much? Or experience too much beauty, at the cost of too much pain? Do you think when art is defined by expressing so much beauty and so much pain, just to be able to cope with both - and bring other people something creatively beautiful at the cost of that pain - that we can draw a line of 'normalcy'? It's important to think about.”
“Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.”
“Always keep your best work.”
“The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”
“Kill an unborn baby and you still couldnâ€™t de-fetus”

Source : "616 rewind". Song by Kno, Deacon the Villain, Kashal-Tee, Sankofa & Tonedeff, October 30, 2001.
“Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.”
“In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.”
“Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought was "dead" very frequently turned out to be better because it was more free of ego.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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