Pastoral Resources

Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.