Quotes About Process

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a substitutive process.

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.