Pastoral Resources

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.