Pastoral Resources

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.

If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.