Insighted

So I finally saw the movie Basquait, amazing film! Props to Bowie for his performance as Warhol...I'm at a point where I really have to figure shit out--I liked this alot, take a read:

"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 one's 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 in even 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 could never explain to someone who use's God's gift to enslave, that you have used God's gift to be free."

--Rene Ricard