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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they cant

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they cant articulate. – Mos Def

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Bob Marley performed the One Love Peace concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. Theres always been that in black music and culture in general. Its no surprise because black music is such a reflection of whats going on in black life. Its not unusual for hip-hop. – Mos Def

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Peace
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Mos Def
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I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so Im cool with that. – Mos Def

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cool
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Mos Def
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To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldnt have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way. – Mos Def

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Experience
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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. – Henri Matisse

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Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way. – David Frost

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The reason the art world doesnt respond to Kinkade is because none – not one – of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. Theyre all cliche and already told. – Jerry Saltz

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know youre an artist. – David Hockney

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