Kanye West

I love Obama. I’m sure we’ll hang out, go to Richard Branson’s island. It’ll be cool.

I use the world as my therapy – as my therapist.

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

When I see people go at the President, why not try love, for one person to stand up against all odds and just hug somebody the way that Alice Johnson hugged her family when she got out of jail?.

I don’t want to put too many boxes on it because the work speaks louder than words.

Feeling is more important than thought.

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

Life is tough and if you’re creative, it’s tougher.

We’re here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference on this planet. That’s what art forms are about.

People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person.

An artist can only be evaluated after he’s dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

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

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is.

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.

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.

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.

I’m terribly intuitive-I always thought I was intellectual about what I do, but I’ve come to the realization that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.

I don’t want to put too many boxes on it because the work speaks louder than words.

Good art will speak to you if you give it a chance.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.