Nile Rodgers Quotes

It's important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs.

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

Art is the highest form of hope.

The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain its presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man.

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence . Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French word for life-jacket.

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

I open up my violin case every day, and have one of the great creations. It is very inspiring. It makes you want to practice. How can you open up a case and look at a violin that was made in 1713 by one of the greatest artists in history and then say, "No, I don't feel like practicing today."

More often than not, when something looks like it's the absolute end, it is really the beginning.

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die today, we do not have to die tomorrow, so let us look to the best in each other

Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people; I do not lead the people.

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

I consider it a great honour that my movie Drive inspired so many wonderful artists to come together and create one ultra-cool glam experience.

If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.

I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.