Kanye West Quotes

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

I want people to think I'm a creative genius.

Paul Cummins is a genius. He's a true visionary.

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

I'm going to sound like an egomaniac, but I'm proud of so many things. I feel proud of my book, 'I'm Just A Person,' proud of my HBO special. I'm proud of a lot of things.

People say to me, 'You're a genius; you're great.' I don't know if I'll ever feel that way about myself. Some things, I feel like, are better left for other people to say, and I'm just not into, like, tooting my own horn or bragging or anything.

I'm a genius.

I came up with all kinds of stuff. That was part of being great and having creativity. I'm not just bragging about myself. I'm just saying.

There's a line between being egotistical and being genius or great.

Madness in method, that's genius

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.

And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant.

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.

I could not but smile to think in what out-of-the-way corners genius produces her bantlings! And the Muses, those capricious dames, who, forsooth, so often refuse to visit palaces, and deny a single smile to votaries in splendid studies, and gilded drawing-rooms--what holes and burrows will they frequent to lavish their favors on some ragged disciple!

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.