Pastoral Resources

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

A great artist is never poor.

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum.

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.