Quotes About Process

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

Music is the journey. You never arrive in music; the work is never over.

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

People work in the system. Management creates the system

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

One works without thinking how to work.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts.

No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

I often work by avoidance.

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

Everyone has their own approach to how they work.

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.