Quotes About Process

I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.

The aim should be to work on the method of management.

I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.

To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.

Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.

Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.