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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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I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so Ive been going by Yasiin since 99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now Im declaring it openly. – Mos Def

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I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this. – Mos Def

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respect
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Focused. Im a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else. – Mos Def

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best
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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. – Lewis Mumford

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people dont need to have. – Andy Warhol

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When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas. – Terri Guillemets

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Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. – Albert Camus

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