There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap.Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about magic
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about magic
But it is Virgil who really begins the development of epic art.Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about magic
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about magic
Man creating his own destiny, man, however wearied with the long task of resistance, achieving some conscious community of aspiration, and dreaming of the perfection of himself: the poet whose lovely and noble art makes us a great symbol of that,...Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about magic
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about magic
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.Quote by Francis Bacon about magic
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.Quote by Francis Bacon about magic
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.Quote by Dean Acheson about magic
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.Quote by Kathy Acker about magic
Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.Quote by Erykah Badu about magic
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.Quote by Ansel Adams about magic
I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time.Quote by Erykah Badu about magic
I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.Quote by Erykah Badu about magic
It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.Quote by Erykah Badu about magic
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of...Quote by Ansel Adams about magic
It's not wrong for us to be together, it's wrong for us to put down each other and depreciate each other's values. Black people have been depreciated a lot here in America; that's a true thing.Quote by Erykah Badu about magic
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.Quote by Scott Adams about magic