Quotes About Process

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

Always think about practice... theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work.

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.