Kanye West - Best Quotes

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

Design

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

Kanye West

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

Death

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Kanye West

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Author: Kanye West

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

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

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

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus that means guns sex lies video tapes but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

If you see a black family it's looting but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

Nothing in life is promised except death.