When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.
I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.
Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.
Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.
That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love.
I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice.
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.