My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

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

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

As an artist, as a brand, as a rapper, as a musician, you know you got a window and a lot of people, even an athlete; they don’t have no exit strategy. It’s just living in the false reality that it’s going to be like this forever.

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

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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.

I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn’t want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn’t supposed to be able to draw – isn’t that wonderful – so I made up a false name.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I’m the king of the anthems.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

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.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

The artist in me cries out for design.

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.