Kanye West

I believe ‘ye’ is the most commonly used word in the Bible, and in the Bible it means ‘you’.

The blacks want always Democrats … You know it’s like the plan they did, to take the fathers out the home and put them on welfare … Does anybody know about that? That’s a Democratic plan.

We don’t want to be influenced, just informed.

I think an extreme thing; I adjust it, I adjust it, I adjust it. That’s the way I get to it, but I have to push to, you know, the furthest concept possible.

[on Glastonbury] I started off the show and I completely messed up the music. And me, as you can imagine by this phone call, I’m a bit of a perfectionist. So it really put me into a slightly depressed state.

[on his SNL performance wearing a MAGA hat] They bullied me backstage. They said don’t go out there with that hat on. They bullied me backstage. They bullied me.

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

This type of soul, this type of art takes a while to cook. It’s like when my wife cooks for me and I always ask for greens. She never wants to cook the greens because they take three hours to cook.

Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two or at times, submerged in either.

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else’s personality, that is not art.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.

There’s no collection that has a better representation of post-war American art than David Geffen’s.

I wouldn’t give five cents for all the art in the world.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

If you believe in your art and you love what you do, that energy will go out and people will respond.

Mother’s taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

It is unquestionably true that the need for art is not created by economic conditions. But neither is the need for food created by economics. On the contrary, the need for food and warmth creates economics.