You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

But time has set its maggot on their track.

O, had I but followed the arts!

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Energy begets energy.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage – they’re just not stages you’re allowed to see.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

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.