Pastoral Resources

My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.

I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

Artists are like everybody else.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

One often forms a mental image of an artist through his work and is often disappointed on meeting him.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.