Pastoral Resources

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.

I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.