Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

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

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.

Music is something no one can control.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

I love Wiz Khalifa.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

I’ve always appreciated a turn of phrase.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

A chorus is not easy.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

All art is quite useless.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

‚Leading man‘ just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

I can’t act!

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

In art the best is good enough.

Applause waits on success.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

I think that every artist – or anybody that’s in business – could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.