Kanye West gave a speech at Oxford University earlier in the week in which he discussed his personal philosophies on a wide variety of topics, one of which was art and creativity. In discussing art, Kanye likened his creative process to that of an athlete.
“…Not only do I want to design video games, or make music, or ride bikes, I think one of the most important things to my ability to create so much in the past 30 years is my desire to play sports. I approach creativity like a sport, where if I have a drawing I react just like a jock: LOOK AT THE FUCKING DRAWING RIGHT THERE YEAH!”
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At first this sounds kind of preposterous, athletes don’t go around looking at art and yelling at it. But then we did a Google image search, and the results were startling. Kanye is 100 percent accurate in his description of athletes and art. Just look:
LOOK AT THE FUCKING DRAWING RIGHT THERE YEAH! – William “Refrigerator” Perry
LOOK AT THE FUCKING DRAWING RIGHT THERE YEAH! – Pat Burrell
LOOK AT THE FUCKING DRAWING RIGHT THERE YEAH! – Kirby Puckett
LOOK AT THE FUCKING DRAWING RIGHT THERE YEAH! – Bart Scott
LOOK AT THE FUCKING DRAWING RIGHT THERE YEAH! – Roger Federer
LOOK AT THE FUCKING DRAWING RIGHT THERE YEAH! – Tim Lincecum
LOOK AT THE FUCKING DRAWING RIGHT THERE YEAH! – Cristiano Ronaldo
