Pastoral Resources

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

Space is the breath of art.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

People in misery is what most important in art.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

It is difficult to make political art work.