just like bob stein's blues

→ "No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who also are creating their own time refuse to accept. And they refuse to accept it for a very simple reason and that is that they do not have to accept it for any reason."

- Composition as Explanation ~ Gertrude Stein

→ "It might not look like no kind of art - but it's a specific drawing that gives off dedication. That's art regardless that it looks like a scribble or vandalism, its still how the artist expresses the way he knows of his art. If you take that away then you leave you with no constitution of doing anything"

- New York graffiti writer, Case 2,
interviewed on NY1 about graffiti in the Bronx

→ "You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning"

- Positively 4th Street ~ Bob Dylan

→ "Not this.
What then?"

- Tjanting ~ Ron Silliman

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