Artists
- Magool (May 2, 1948–March 19, 2004) (Halima Khaliif Omar) – prominent Somali singer, considered in Somalia as one of the greatest entertainers of all time.
- Khadija Qalanjo – popular Somali singer in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Hasan Adan Samatar (b. 1953) – popular male artist during the 1970s and 80s
- K'naan (b. February 1, 1978) – award-winning Somali-Canadian hip hop artist.
- Aar Maanta – popular Somali singer, composer, songwriter and music producer.
- Ali Feiruz (1931–1994) – Somali musician from Djibouti; part of the Radio Hargeisa generation of Somali artists.
- Maryam Mursal (b. January 1, 1950) – famous musician from Somalia; composer and vocalist whose work has been produced by the record label Real World.
- Mohamed Mooge Liibaan (?–June 1984) – Somali artist from the Radio Hargeisa generation.
- Abdi Sinimo (b. 1920s) – prominent Somali artist and inventor of the Balwo musical style.
- Waaberi – Somalia's foremost musical group that toured throughout several countries in Africa and Asia, including Egypt, Sudan and China.
- Abdullahi Qarshe (1924–1994) – Somali musician, poet and playwright known for his innovative styles of music which included a wide variety of musical instruments such as the guitar, piano, and oud.
- Saba Anglana – Somali-Italian actress and international singer
- Abdi Bashir Indhobuur – poet and songwriter
- Marian Joan Elliott Said (Poly Styrene) (July 3, 1957–April 25, 2011) – pioneering Somali-British punk rock singer with X-Ray Spex
- Mocky (Dominic Salole) (b. October 7, 1974) – Somali-Canadian pop music performer
- French Montana (b. November 9, 1984) – Somali-Moroccan rapper
- Hassan Sheikh Mumin (1930/31–January 16, 2008) – Somali poet, reciter and playwright
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“The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs.... Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.”
—Laurent A. Daloz (20th century)
“In dealings with scholars and artists we are apt to miscalculate in opposite directions: behind a remarkable scholar we sometimes, and not infrequently, find a mediocre man, and behind a mediocre artist, fairly often—a very remarkable man.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)