Nipsey Hussle Quotes

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

A lot of times when you're making a record, you put your head down and charge forward until you're done. You just hope that the ideas hold up, because you're kind of lost in your own storm.

When I'm in a session with an artist, my job is to help execute their vision - so it's whatever story they're telling, and the news doesn't specifically affect that.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

The artist is called a creator.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.

When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything. I'm more than just a pretty boy: I'm an artist. I'm not saying I'm a hip-hop music artist, I'm an artiste.

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.

I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort.

I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you want to do, that you attempt to do as an artist, is to have some sort of input into the material that you are working on. That is how my process begins; I say to myself: "I want to do this kind of work or I want to do that kind of work."

I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his works may throw light upon his life. An artist with certain imaginative ideas in his head may then involve himself in relationships which are congenial to them.

An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.