Graffiti artists use the stuff of everyday life as their canvas-walls, dumpsters, buses. A stylized representation is placed on an everyday object. In visual art, as in other media, artists take unfiltered pieces of their surroundings and use them for their own means.

playing that form of music, but at some point I felt there was nothing else

The original com-position still exists, and the new one dances on top of the old one, like an editor writing notes in the margins.

they must be taken to be real by their young fans to havecommercial success

‘N SYNC (based on the last letters of their first names)

great pains tounderscore the authenticity of its products

YouTube is the Walmart of digital media

Dylan's particular, personal voice is materially a part of the meaning of his songsin a way which was not possible fifty years before he was born.

and according to the strict laws of metre, does not differ from that of prose, there is a numerous class of critics, who, when they stumble upon these prosaisms, as they call them, imagine that they have made a notable discovery, and exult over the Poet as over a man ignorant of his own profession.

Like all arts, lyric is meant to give pleasure– imaginative, linguistic, intellectual, and moral. If one hasn’t enjoyed a poem and been moved by it, one hasn’t really experienced it as an artwork.