If you're willing to give your life to defend my rights, you can have sex with a pie and I will heat it up for you.
The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.
Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.
The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.
Can art change the world? Maybe. . . we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.
Europe is not one of the major powers. And Africa even less so of course. But Africa has what Europe lacks: space, human resources, and natural resources while Europe has the technological innovation that Africa lacks. Together we can become a power which can count in the future.
The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.
That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.