Quotes About Artistic Process

#1. I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the artifice and not acknowledging the self in the artistic process, and not acknowledging the absurdity of pretending that's required in fiction.

Dave Eggers

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

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#3. I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling that you can identify. It's like a dog sitting in front of a fire. Pain isolates you, but it can also clarify things.

Amanda Harlech

#4. When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.

Paul Budnitz

#5. Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

Oscar Wilde

#6. I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we got something here.

Michael Tolkin

#7. I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?

George Saunders

#8. What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#9. I want to have conversations, because they give you confidence in your choices. I learned it first on Boyz n the Hood, but it is not a race-based experience - it is part of the artistic process.

Nia Long

#10. The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

Nick Cave

#11. I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

David Sanborn

#12. It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

Carlton Cuse

#13. My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

Chelsea Martin

#14. Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For many, buying art is their escape from the real world. Make it entertaining and enjoyable.

Cory Trepanier

#15. I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

Henry James

#16. I have very little interest in endlessly telling people about my artistic process. It sounds like throwing yourself against a wall and crying. It's not interesting to most people. It's interesting to yourself. But it's your problem, not anyone else's.

Laurel Nakadate

#17. Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

George Edward Woodberry

#18. The artistic methods of poetry, painting, photography, and writing share certain commonalities of deep composition: spirit, rhythm, thought, and scenery.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#19. My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

Anna Deavere Smith

#20. That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#21. Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you. Go for that communion, that real communion with your soul, and the discipline of expressing that communion with others. That doesn't come from competition. That comes from being one with what you are doing.

Anna Deavere Smith

#22. You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.

Anna Deavere Smith

#23. It is not easy to build a great brand. It takes leadership to persuade the rest of the company to follow your vision. It takes an artistic sense of proportion and timing. It takes a ruthless willingness to distinguish yourself from competing brands and, hopefully, bury them in the process.

David F. D'Alessandro

#24. It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.

Denise Levertov

#25. Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

Salvador Dali

#26. Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals while enjoying the process, being ambitious without being too competitive.

Chris Sharma

#27. I'm very excited about dance and love it with a deep passion. I also struggle, tire and become discouraged. But what has always revived me ... has been the rebirth of energy each time the creative process is awakened and artistic activity begins to unfold even in some infinitesimal measure.

Anna Halprin

#28. The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words.

Asger Jorn

#29. In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#30. We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

Kim Weston

#31. The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort.

Elias Canetti

#32. I left Mephistopheles, the angels, and the remnants of our handmade world, saying, I choose Earth.

Patti Smith

#33. Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I'm not lonely, if that's what it seems like. Always writing things down.

Chris Campanioni

#34. Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show ... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.

Richard Phillips

#35. A Classical style ... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.

James Joyce