Pastoral Resources

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.