Pastoral Resources

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.

1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.

United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

I've always loved movies, art and clothes.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.