Pastoral Resources

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

The best artists know what to leave out.

I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.

Alan is a great guy, a terrific guy. We haven't worked together since then, and he's always working with different artists. I think he sees different dimensions he can see from different guys.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.

Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.