Favorite Artist Quotes

I say nice things about Mariah 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. ~ Nicki Minaj

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. ~ Anna Torv

One of my favorite artists on Deviantart. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

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. ~ Grant Gustin

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

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. ~ Jackson Harris

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. ~ Eric Wight

Everyone wants to know what kind of music their favorite artist listens to. It feels good to. I don't try to dwell on that too much though. ~ Brett Dennen

But you know, we have more hits than you can possibly think about. One of my personal favorite artists is the wonderful artist named Cher. And although I love much of her late stuff, her early stuff was the stuff that I really, really loved. ~ Colin Mochrie

A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons. ~ Theophilus London

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. ~ Paul Banks

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. ~ Leo Fitzpatrick

Kanye West is my favorite artist. ~ Drake

Something is wrong with Eminem. He has so much in his mind that I almost feel lucky that he has music. I feel like he has so much in his head that music is such a great release for him. He is one of my favorite artists. Absolutely. ~ Rihanna

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. ~ Jonny Lang

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

Traveling around is what I Like to Do. Me And my boy Arab we live on the road. Doing shows is what I love to do. I put my heart and soul on the track and I Love the response I get. Performing wit UNK? Mane daz a dream come true. He's one of my favorite artist and Inspirations. So when they said Soulja Boy you got a show wit UNK man. Im like Walk It Out UNK? LETS GO! ~ Soulja Boy

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

There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive - now RCA - which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over me was really cool, but I ended up going with Jive because it felt better over there, and they have my favorite artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake. ~ Jacob Latimore

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times. ~ Martha Graham

I remember the first time my friend Colin Lewis, who used to be a judge with me on a show on MuchMusic called 'disBAND,' told me, 'I think I just found your next favorite artist to adore.' He sent me The Weeknd, and he was completely spot on. The Weeknd is literally on every playlist I have. ~ Hannah Simone

When you master the art of work, then your life becomes a work of art...and you're the artist and no one else paints your life for you. ~ Sotero M Lopez II

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The aim and end of the artist is not truth exactly, much less fact; it is effect ... There is no doubt he [the photographer] best gets his effect by way of truth, but he uses it as he would a servant, not a master. ~ Henry Peach Robinson

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe

Like all children, you would have loved and admired her. You would have named your favorite doll after her....And then you would have poked out the doll's eyes. ~ Sally Hobart Alexander

The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone. ~ Willem De Kooning

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention. ~ Alan Parsons

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. ~ Alfred Sisley

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. ~ John F. Kennedy

'100 Bullets' is probably my favorite thing, ever. It's pretty close with early 'Hellboy' stuff. ~ Jonathan Hickman

Creating Your Character is Like an Artist Creating a Sculpture ~ Jim Rohn

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love. ~ Austin Kleon

A detailed
analysis of the most famous novels would show, in different perspectives each time, that the essence of
the novel lies in this perpetual alteration, always directed toward the same ends, that the artist makes in
his own experience. Far from being moral or even purely formal, this alteration aims, primarily, at unity
and thereby expresses a metaphysical need. The novel, on this level, is primarily an exercise of the
intelligence in the service of nostalgic or rebellious sensibilities. It would be possible to study
this quest for unity in the French analytical novel and in Melville, Balzac, Dostoievsky, or Tolstoy ~ Albert Camus

This world has never failed to disappoint
And it has its way to teach me that the best thing you may do is running back to yourself
Make a therapy out of your favorite things;
Read for your favorite authors,
Listen to music,
Write love notes to yourself,
And enjoy solitude between the walls of your room.
The world is so cold outside, so learn to enjoy the warmth of those details you have always had but never learned to appreciate … ~ Samiha Totanji

We ate all of this in front of Tack's huge, flat-screen TV in the living room where I was treated to a marathon of Storage Wars. Seeing as I didn't watch TV, I'd never heard of this program. But by the second episode I was hooked. I declared that I thought Brandi and Jarrod were "adorable" together, which for some reason he didn't explain made Rush laugh so hard I thought he would bust a gut. Rush might find that funny but I decided I was going to start dressing like Brandi. She always looked the shit. I also shared that Dave was my favorite "character" to which Tabby told me with grave seriousness, "But, Tyra, he's the bad guy. ~ Kristen Ashley

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's valuable to me as an artist and actor to explore all kinds of outlets. So if a local filmmaker in Milwaukee had a good story, I'd be part of it in a second. ~ Tanya Fischer

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create! ~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

The art of living involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence of a way of life, which, if it is not crazy is certainly different from the accepted way of life ... For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal. ~ Henry Miller

(Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and - oh - tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair. ~ Charlaine Harris

You are the artist of your existence, my dear. So color the canvas of your destiny and mold the shape of your reality. Never forget that above all else, your life is a masterpiece of your own creating. ~ Becca Lee

Frightening for many artists is promoting themselves. They feel it is ... artificial and not what we want to be known for. Yet if we start thinking about what we do as important and important to offer to people, not to sell ... it allows us to shift the way we think about promoting ourselves. ~ Adam Leipzig

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich. ~ Charles Bukowski

I don't make my kids say
I'm their favorite star ~ Shahrukh Khan

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back. ~ Madeleine Peyroux

I am an Entertainer, I don't feel anything wrong in any of demanding scene as per the script, I cook to serve for people, Not to eat ourselves! ~ Mikki Koomar

Music is the strongest form of magic. ~ Marilyn Manson

Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe

It's like every time you have one of these, you're sort of - your lease is renewed another five years. And that's kind of great for me 'cause that's all I really want to be doing still at this point, like just making records and getting to work with, like, artists that I think are exciting. ~ Mark Ronson

What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a complement to the singer and the song ... ~ James Burton

It was something in the way she moved.
Something in the way she breathed.
Something in the way she merely 'was' .
And he didn't think he was ever going to get over it. ~ Julia Quinn

All my makeup tricks are from modeling jobs! It's my favorite part of the job - learning new tricks! ~ Erin Heatherton