"What is it about art anyway that we give it so much importance? Artists are respected by the poor because what they do is an honest way to get out of the slum. Using ones sheer self as the medium. The money earned - proof, pure and simple, of the value of that individual - the artist..."
"... the picture a mother's son does in jail hangs on her wall as proof that beauty is possible even in the most wretched. And this is a much different idea than the fancier notion that art is a scam and a rip off. But you can never explain to someone who uses God's gift to enslave, that you have used God's gift - to be free."
