Quote by Saul Williams
The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I

The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals. – Saul Williams

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I think its a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesnt seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and thats ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations. – Saul Williams

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Music
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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. Its not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. – Saul Williams

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Poetry
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Why shouldnt rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess its this old idea of containment – that rappers, because theyre black, cant and shouldnt aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. – Saul Williams

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History
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. – Paul Cezanne

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Art

Art is mans constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. – Chinua Achebe

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Art

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

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Art

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Art

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I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists. – Robert Indiana

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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something wed all love one another. – Frank Zappa

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