Pastoral Resources

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.

Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day.

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.