Pastoral Resources

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.

But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

I used to always read my stuff. And I could never understand why artists would say, 'Oh, I can't read my older stuff.' I'd go, 'Are you crazy? I could read my stuff forever!' Now it's a little harder.

And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

Artists are like everybody else.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.