Quotes About Process

I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.

I work from the inside out.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.

I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it off into the world so I can get to work on the next one.

it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

Ignore your previous experience and go into the moment. Be Here Now. See what there is to work with right now in creating yourself anew. Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.