Favorite Artist Quotes

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.

My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.

Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.

One of my favorite artists on Deviantart.

Merce is my favorite artist in any field.

A friend of mine says his two favorite artists are Picasso and Rembrandt. Picasso because he paints the beautiful in such an ugly fashion. And Rembrandt because he paints the ugly so beautifully.

I have many favorite artists...Van Gough as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.

My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!

Im interested in the liberating aspect of being totally untethered, let loose in the worst possible environments. My favorite artists are always women that do things that are so wrong... I like things to be seven kinds of wrong. If they are seven kinds of wrong, sometimes the wrongs neutralize themselves, and the whole thing becomes.

Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.

I know as a fan of music I want my favorite artists to give me as much content and music as possible , so that is what I am trying to do.

Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on the planet. Like I don't think I'll ever feel that way about another artist.

I had no idea the amount of people who even knew who I was. Suddenly, they were coming up and saying, "You're my favorite artist." Very surreal. After years of trying to get work, and then coming here and being able to meet some of the fans of Array.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons.

My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.

Some of my favorite artists are Jason Mraz, Eric Hutchinson, Ben Folds, Bruno Mars, Mumford and Sons, Maroon 5 - their vibe is slightly different from all the pop stuff on 'Glee,' although some do fall into that genre.

I say nice things about Mariah Carey all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I am of her. She's one of my favorite artists of all time... She's shaped a generation of singers.

I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock, and Jimi Hendrix is one of my favorite artists. My favorite song is 'Red House,' because it's heavy on the blues.

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

Snoop [Dog] is my favorite artist of all time. He's someone I look up to.

Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet, I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!