#process

Art is the overflow of emotion into action. ↗

— Brian Raif

#art #creative-expression #creative-process #creative-writing #creativity

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#bureaucratic #delays #home #home ownership #native

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#administration #agreed #analogous #attention #due

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #arts-and-humanities #be-yourself #creative-people #creative-process

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#creative-process #creativity #art

The function of the artist is to disturb...In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution--the principle of life...He is the creative spirit working in the soul of man. ↗

— Dr. Norman Bethune

#creative-process #creativity #inspirational #revolutionaries #change

Please don't entertain for a moment the utterly mistaken idea that there is no drudgery in writing. There is a great deal of drudgery in even the most inspired, the most noble, the most distinguished writing. Read what the great ones have said about their jobs; how they never sit down to their work without a sigh of distress and never get up from it witout a sigh of relief. Do you imagine that your Muse is forever flamelike -- breathing the inspired word, the wonderful situation, the superb solution into your attentive ear? ... Believe me, my poor boy, if you wait for inspiration in our set-up, you'll wait for ever. ↗

— Ngaio Marsh

#inspiration #writing #death

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. ↗

— Graham Greene

#beginning #creative-process #end #storytelling #writing

The effect your readers want is for what they read to trigger in them the sights and sounds and smells of what's happening in the story. They don't want approximations, they don't want a report, they want to experience the story's reality. ↗

— Ray Rhamey

#experience

Most—but not all—of the writers I knew then were young men who cherished their independence, were unconcerned about job security, and were serious about their writing. They didn’t want to be anyone’s employee if it interfered with their writing. They were halfway or all the way outside the mainstream and were often not interested in becoming part of the burgeoning corporate society. They had more freedom than your average American. ↗

— Sterling Lord

#writing-process #freedom