The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful. — George Bellows
In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece — Kai Greene
My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music. — Chance the Rapper
I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life. — D.T. Suzuki
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. — Loren Eiseley
Great artists suffer for the people. — Marvin Gaye
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. — Marcel Duchamp
The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home. — Lil' Kim
To be an artist is to believe in life. — Henry Moore
An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way — Sayings
What if Picasso had gone to the Moon? Or Andy Warhol or Michael Jackson or John Lennon? What about Coco Chanel? These are all artists that I adore. — Yusaku Maezawa
The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths. — Bruce Nauman
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. — Robert Rauschenberg
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. — George Santayana
Favorite Artist Image Quotes
Behind every girl's favorite song there is an untold story.
Favorite Singer Quotes
Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us. — Kris Kristofferson
A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning. — Taylor Swift
Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs. — Stephen Malkmus
No artist tolerates reality.
Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical. — Grimes
People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones. — Johnny Cash
Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her. — Brad Paisley
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice. — Johnny Mathis
I'd have to say that Kenny White has earned a place among my favorite singer/songwritersand particularly, lyricists. As we say in the trade “he goes deep.” A true wordsmith AND musician who reveals a fine sense of humor, as well. Put on your headphones and listen carefully. — David Crosby
As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott. — Laura Lippman
Famous Artist Quotes
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. — Georgia O'Keeffe
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. — Vincent Van Gogh
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who ispires others.
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be. — Ai Weiwei
The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. — Alberto Giacometti
I would rather die of passion than of boredom. — Emile Zola
I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful...and powerful. What I was thinking to do with my image was to reclaim the image of blackness as an emblem of power. — Kerry James Marshall
Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions. — Kiki Smith
Great Artist Quotes
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. — Margot Fonteyn
The things of nature are the Lord's silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist. — Ellen G. White
A great chef is an artist that I truly respect. — Robert Stack
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. — Paul Rand
It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal. — Sherrie Levine
Every artist was first an amateur.
Artists who are able to continually create great works throughout their lives often manage to preserve these childlike qualities. Practicing a way of being that allows you to see the world through uncorrupted, innocent eyes can free you to act in concert with the universe’s timetable. — Rick Rubin
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. — Steven Seagal
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea? — David Lee Roth
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience. — Shelley Winters
Favorite Music Quotes
I spend most of my evenings grinding into the early morning to my favorite music. — Alex Jones
Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise. — Sayyid Qutb
My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there. — Trey Parker
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist
I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school. — Tommy Lee
My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop. — Lauren Alaina
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads. — Pia Toscano
I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine. — Guy Pearce
I love my 'Boom Clap.' Charli XCX is a big one for me. — Joe Gatto
Good Artist Quotes
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist — Francis of Assisi
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. — David Carson
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. — Jackson Pollock
Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.
Young artists wish for inspired moments. And you find them; you take them; eager artists are bandits. Theatrical moments arrive, and...you grab. Good! You know it will draw attention to you. But you aim to be more than bandits, no? So, okay...now be Samurai. — Jerzy Grotowski
One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best. And unless you photograph what you love, you are not going to make good art. — Sally Mann
I'm not good at doing the same thing over and over again. — Akira Toriyama
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US. — Pat Garrett
You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously. — Wim Crouwel
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. — Alexander Calder
I'm not very good at depicting the characters' psychology on the page. — Akira Toriyama
Favorite Song Quotes
Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent. — Camila Cabello
You're like the lyrics to my favorite song. You stick with me all day long. And when I reach the end I wanna hear it again. — TobyMac
You listen to your favorite song just until you're almost getting sick of it, and then it's so fun to rediscover it after a couple of months. — Anna Kendrick
Good artists borrow, great artists steal.
We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice. — Shawn Amos
My favorite songs are my favorite songs because they just feel like a certain moment, or a certain photo, just a snapshot for whatever three or four minutes the song is. — Tyler, The Creator
My favorite kind of music is the stuff that stops time. You put something on to sit there and let an experience go through you. To look at yourself clearly through a song. It's true of all art, all mediums, but for some reason music has a direct line straight into people. — Jeff Buckley
Every child is an artist. The challenge is to remain an artist after you grow up.
I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them. — Deborah Cox
'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it. — Tom Petty
The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica for me is the light. It's like no other light on Earth, because the air is so free of impurities. You get drugged by it, like when you listen to one of your favorite songs. The light there is a mood-enhancing substance. — Jon Krakauer
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten. — Rob Sheffield
Favorite Person Quotes
I guess I like Piccolo the most after all. — Akira Toriyama
I like Piccolo about the same as I like Goku. — Akira Toriyama
The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon. — Frank Zappa
One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown. — Stella Gibbons
I think life is about falling in love with the right person, shopping, eating our favorite desserts and traveling a lot. — Olivia Palermo
Learning more is a smart person’s favorite way to procrastinate. — Mark Manson
I think that's where you get your inspiration from. Your favorite things that you love. — James Murray
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? — Gabrielle Zevin
Occasionally you get that one person that says "I really like that one part of this joke" and you go, "Oh thank you that's my favorite part too." But no, in order for it to be authentic hopefully you have jokes that everyone can just get on board with and then you have a few things for yourself. — John Mulaney
The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Favorite Book Quotes
The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love. — Kevin Gates
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. — Dr. Seuss
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. — Marcel Proust
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book. — Marcel Proust
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind! — Jim Rohn
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted. — Beverly Cleary
I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books. Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like weve both got red hair, we both like sweets, weve both got lots of brothers and sisters. Ive got one brother and three sisters, and both scared of spiders. — Rupert Grint
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. — Jack Kerouac
A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT. — Meg Cabot
My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are! — Johnny Ramone
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. — Robert Hughes
My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it's my home, it's Music City. It's like, everybody there is so artistic and so creative, and nice! Everybody's really friendly. — Taylor Swift
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. — Tracey Emin
My favorite recordings are the ones that feel like there were no middlemen in the creation. That's the biggest problem with most films and records being made today - too many people involved. I think it dilutes the artist's intent and inspiration. — M. Ward
Snoop [Dog] is my favorite artist of all time. He's someone I look up to. — Kid Cudi
Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever. — Kevin Smith
Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist. — Melanie Martinez
Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with. — Chance the Rapper
I never really listen to what people say. My thing is that my favorite artists are artists that are theatrical. Obviously when you are doing a recording, things aren't gonna translate as over-the-top. — Adam Lambert
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. — Ashley Bickerton
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite. — Friedrich von Schiller
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
I'm not into screamo music, but I respect it. It's hard to do, to keep your voice and stuff like that. It's hard to do, so I respect the music. It's just not my favorite to listen to. That's all I want. I just want people to respect me as an artist. — Justin Bieber
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
Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists. ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac. — Marian Keyes
Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes. — Taylor Swift
My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to artists like R.E.M., Ben Folds, Prince, Annie Lennox, the Police, Elvis Costello, Cat Stevens, the Ditty Bops, local bands that friends of mine are in, and the list goes on... I have no single favorite genre or artist. — Stephanie D'Abruzzo
There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of adverse reaction, and later, it became my favorite thing. — Regina Spektor
The swimsuit and jeans look is my favorite. It was a big part of my introduction to the world as an artist. It was so cool to see girls wearing swimsuits with their jeans during that time. — Ciara
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. — Brandy Norwood
I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries. — Jerry Saltz
That's a KORTAN DAHUK. That's the first alien we see in the film [Valerian]. That's another artist. The first one was Chinese, the one with the space station. This one is American. Personally, that's my favorite alien. I love him. I love his profile and his face. There is such a sweetness and almost a sadness in his face. — Luc Besson
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
Gucci Mane is my favorite artist. — Fetty Wap
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
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 hip-hop artists is Makonnen. One of my favorite bands is Fall Out Boy. You put those two together, and that's Lil Peep. — Lil Peep
The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite. — Friedrich von Schiller
I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot! — Colin Mochrie
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
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. — Ariana Grande
My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I'd love to collaborate with Frank Ocean. He's one of my favorite artists of all time. — Khalid
For me, if I saw my favorite artist in the store, I would probably just tell them three words and walk away. — Lil Peep
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
As an artist, let the creativity be the priority as often as you can, even though we all understand that there are bills to pay. My favorite artists are those who have always kept a strong creative image and their vision for their art at the forefront. — Yukimi Nagano
I don't really have a favorite artist - I mean, I really love Drake - but it depends on my mood. I like anything that makes me feel good. — Taylor Townsend
If I did a Rock record, it would be equally as truthful because I love Rock. I had to actually sing to Bon Jovi one time and I felt like he believed me. He's one of my favorite artists, so there's nothing better than the truth. — Estelle
Leon Golub was a painter. He was an artist struggling to make it in the New York City art world, but at the same time he was a very political guy, and engaged in the world around him. In the film, we saw how that world eventually encroached into his painting. One of my favorite lines in the film was how he had to be more precise, 'but now the pants have wrinkles, I hated to do it, but I had to do it.' — Gordon Quinn
When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones. — Micah Perks
I wasn't a Prince fan until I watched Purple Rain. When I watched that, it was one of my favorite movies of all time because it shows the life of an artist. — Tyga
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