People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn’t mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairytale artist.

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.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

Don’t you love it that Prince doesn’t use Twitter? Don’t you think he’s somewhere on a unicorn?

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

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

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

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.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

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

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

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist’s creativity comes from torment. Once that’s fixed, what do you draw on?

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

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

The artist in me cries out for design.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I’m doing new stuff all the time.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn’t. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it’s about you and what you want to be. You’re not being treated like a clothes hanger.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling 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.

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

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.

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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.

Every album, I make big records. I’m going to always make an anthem. That’s what I do.

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

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

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.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

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.

I’m the king of the anthems.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

I want to be an artist, not… a celluloid aphrodisiac.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.