Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.
I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.
The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.
For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.