Process Quotes

“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.”

“Focus on the input, not the output.”

“The purpose of flow is to keep on flowing, not looking for a peak or utopia but staying in the flow.”

“I work on a canvas until I think it is finished. I paint a picture and then I just leave it alone.”

“For me, the formation of the thought is already sculpture.”

“My job is to bring the text to life. The text is the score, the text is the blueprint.”

“I work very slowly. It is a kind of meditation.”

“When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes, it is not a laughing matter.”

“What I'm trying to do is to make a certain note, a certain kind of form, a certain kind of landscape, and it's not a question of illustrating a thing.”

“Casting is a great deal of my work.”

“The limitations are what make it interesting. Having infinite possibilities is boring.”

“Healing is a daily thing. You can't just put a Band-Aid on it and say it's over.”

“Success is not a destination, it's a journey.”

“My music is a dramatisation of the process of thinking.”

“We just make tracks, and then we think about how they fit together later. We never think about albums.”

“Every form is a frozen instant of a process. Thus a work of art is a stopping-place in a process that is not yet completed.”

“Every time you write a book, you're looking for a different way to write a book.”

“I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the 'yes.' I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.”

“Of course, it is not the victory but the execution of a well-thought-out plan which is the source of the greatest satisfaction in a game.”

“The most important thing to remember is that you can't get it all right the first time. You can't.”