The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

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

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.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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.

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.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.

I’m no hillbilly singer.

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.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

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

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

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

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

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

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

I don’t eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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.

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

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

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

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.

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.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

I like Cardi B!

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

I’m a huge fan of R. Kelly’s. He’s a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

I’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

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.

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

The artist in me cries out for design.

I didn’t watch ‚The A-Team‘ movie. I’m an artist. You can’t re-paint a Rembrandt. You can’t duplicate that; I don’t care who you get.

I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

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

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

I don’t like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

‚Do you spell it with a ‚V‘ or a ‚W‘?‘ inquired the judge. ‚That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord‘.

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

I’m personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

I love Wiz Khalifa.