Pastoral Resources

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.