Kanye West Quotes

“Art is to be free. Design is to fix.”

“Fashion is merely an opinion. And I've got a lot of opinions.”

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

“I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.”

“There was a time Michael Jackson couldn't get his video on MTV because he was considered to be "urban." So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after.”

“Even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.”

“My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.”

“I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.”

“I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.”

“I will go down as the voice of this generation.”

“I still think I am the greatest.”

“I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.”

“I am not a fan of books.”

“Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.”

“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.”

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

“In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool. People who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.”

“I can analyse people's intentions. Immediately. That's just a warning. To everyone.”

“Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.”

“I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.”

“I love being American, and I love family. I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also.”

“I love sleep; it's my favourite.”

“I don't use blue. I don't like it. It bugs me out. I hate it.”

“I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.”