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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 even in the most wretched. And this is a much different idea than fancier notion that art is a scam and a ripoff. But you can never explain to someone who uses God's gift to enslave, that you have used God's gift to be free
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 even in the most wretched. And this is a much different idea than fancier notion that art is a scam and a ripoff. But you can never explain to someone who uses God's gift to enslave, that you have used God's gift to be free
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What is it about art anyway that we give it so much importance
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Art is so respected by the poor because what they do
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is an honest way to get out of the slum
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using one's sheer self as the medium
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The money earned proof pure and simple
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of the value of that individual the artist
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The picture a mother's son does in jail hangs on her wall
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as proof that beauty is possible even in the most wretched
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And this is a much different idea
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than the fancier notion that art is a scam and a rip off
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But you could never explain to someone who uses God's gift to enslave
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that you have used God's gift to be free
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Movie Summary
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
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Jean Michel Basquiat
