Pastoral Resources

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

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