Quotes About Process

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

I'm kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting.

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was through doing the paintings.

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed.

Unfortunately, even during a pandemic we've seen a process in Washington that makes no sense for the needs of Mainers.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

When I first started writing, I did mostly short fiction, and I'd work on a short story and get near to being done and have no idea what I'd work on next, and then I'd panic.

In a first draft, I concentrate on moving forward and trying not to panic.

For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

There's so much paperwork that goes with changing a name.

I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork.

The adoption process was not an easy one. The paperwork took nine months. It's a full-time thing!

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.

All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox because you are constantly making choices.

I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.