The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

I could hardly sit through ‚Frozen.‘ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn’t refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

The artist in me cries out for design.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

Music is like film to me.

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 respect Soulja Boy.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

In art the best is good enough.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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

I draw from the crowd a lot.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

I don’t think I’m supposed to boss other people around just because I’m a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I’ve seen it happen. I don’t call those people out – they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.