Quotes About Process

It's always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work?

I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

No great work of art is ever finished.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

The designer must think first and work later.

Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

Don't wait for perfect. Don't wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.

I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to translate my thoughts in a language that does not run evenly with them.

I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.