Pharrell Williams Art Quotations

Failure is not always a bad thing. You just have to be smart while you're in the middle of it. You're in the eye of the tornado of like disappointment to know that it's just a storm and it'll pass.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

That's our job as artists is to be honest about what we're feeling. And what we're feeling is not always going to be perfect. Sometimes it's going to be controversial. Sometimes it's going to piss a couple of people off. Sometimes it's going to motivate people. Sometimes it's going to inspire.

I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing.

I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop.

Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

Week before that, I was out in Italy Italian heart-throbs could not get rid of me

I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.

Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.

At the end of the day, the Lord knows I have no malice in my heart. But I've got tattoos, and I still fornicate.

Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket

There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the people lift you to a certain height so that you could even be visible and get any kind of recognition.

Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that.

I don't know, the artist thing is not me.