Pastoral Resources

I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it.

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.