Pastoral Resources

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.

Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it.