Quotes from Kanye West

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.

Nothing is promised in life except death.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

I still think I am the greatest.

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don't. I do not like to think at all.

Now that you're gone, it hit us, super hard on Thanksgiving and Chrismas, this can't be right, yo you heard the track I did called this can't be life

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

I've been outta my mind a long time.

I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.

I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up 'humble,' 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It's a controlling word. It's a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

Our work is never over.

I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

I'm not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.

Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.

Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.