Pastoral Resources

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

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.

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.

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.