The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one art form to mimic the other, so that our native identity remains the native identity, the contemporary identity remains the contemporary identity, and the mixing of these two musical identities creates a third musical identity.
Copy QuoteThe aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Copy Quote View & ShareI found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
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