What really made me a ...

What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I\'ve always had [that ability], but it was coming to an understanding.
What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability], but it was coming to an understanding.
 Kalup Linzy

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.
 Kalup Linzy
I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on the web.
 Kalup Linzy
It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works are in institutions and museums, they keep living on and on and on, even if you move to a different space, that work is still operating.
 Kalup Linzy
I'm actually looking for a gallery, but the thing is some galleries just want to show the video work and some are just interested in the 2-D work. It has to be a gallery where I can do the 2-D collages, the video, and live performance, where it's not this weird conflict, where it can all move forward.
 Kalup Linzy
Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.
 Kalup Linzy