Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cult... -Nikki Giovanni

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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Nikki Giovanni , Poet
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Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together....
Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come....
For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool....
If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it....
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying....
A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, y...
I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching....
I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people....
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste....
I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd...

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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also t...
Art is for everybody....
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully....
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible....
Art? That's a man's name....
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day....
Extreme complication is contrary to art....
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable....
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head a...
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the ...