Killer Mike Quotes

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.

I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them.

Getting to share a project with Anthony Hopkins is incredible. It's like watching Da Vinci paint or something - you're reminded why you do what you do.

My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

London is full of creative people - you can never say that it's not.

New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the people that you get exposed to.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.