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I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#always #create #dimensions #forever #hip-hop

It's like having a conversation. Doing beatbox for me is as natural as talking is for someone else. Sending sound through a certain part of my throat, so that I am accurate every time. It's not like whatever happens happens, this is a focused sound. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#am #certain #conversation #doing #else

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#civilization #extent #impossible #instinct #overlook

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#consume #how #know #live #manipulate

When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was like walking into a casino and I decided to bet everything on hip-hop, and I hit! My hit wasn't just a hit for me, it was a hit for everyone in this culture. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#bet #casino #culture #decided #everyone

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ↗

— Max Stirner

#crime #individual #law #own #state

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#colours #emotional #full #i #saturated

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#copies #copy #faithfully #going #hung

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#am #art #doing #end #i

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#copies #copy #faithfully #going #hung