Pastoral Resources

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.

The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal.

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

I was looking at making a shift in my career. I've been so blessed I'd like to be able to give that back. If I could find young artists, young performers I can nurture to have a career I would really like that.

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.