Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

Think off-center.

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

I’m interested in Jackson Pollock’s kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it’s nothing, and yet it’s incredible.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you’re always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.

I don’t see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

I’ve had everything pierced at some point.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

Love is only one of many passions.