Pastoral Resources

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.