You are not doing hip hop; you ARE hip hop.
Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being.
In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
