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Quotes About Process

In the art game we do our own cooking.
~ Sara Genn
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
~ Kanye West
Making art is a journey.
~ Meinrad Craighead
Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
~ Edward Hirsch
Making art is different for everyone.
~ China Chow
Greatness in art is always a by-product.
~ Harold Rosenberg
Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.
~ Josef Albers
I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.
~ Charlie Kaufman
Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art
~ David Bayles
If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.
~ Dick Durbin
Book marketing should be a planned process, an art if you will.
~ Heather Hart
It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just making beats and I'll be OK.
~ J. Cole
I'm working in my mind.
~ Jasper Johns
I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.
~ Jock Sturges
Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].
~ Kristin Chenoweth
My guitar player calls the process of writing lyrics based on another story, "filling up the well" when you can get inspiration from other people's art without stealing, more being influenced by it.
~ Unknown
Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.
~ Mohsin Hamid
The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.
~ Norman McLaren
I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.
~ Patti Smith
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
~ Paul Cezanne
There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.
~ Robert Breault
Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.
~ Spider Robinson