OPEN INVITATION: The legendary Saturday Zen rap battle and poetry thread is here. Step into the arena to get cut down, completely broken down to your very last compound, put back together and sent on your way, the only warriors to survive are ones that walk the Way.

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
― Pablo Picasso

Submitted January 26, 2019 at 08:46PM by WanderingRoninXIII http://bit.ly/2DBEGMn