Pastoral Resources

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.

My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

I am just an artist.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member.

I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.

It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.

Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists.