Artistic Process Quotes

"The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth." "Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity" "The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first " "I wrote a song, but I can't read music, so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while, I'll be listening to the radio and I say, I think I might have written that." "The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing." "The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world and he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true" "If a story is in you, it has to come out." "You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood" "Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." "The artist must actively cultivate that state which most people avoid: the state of being alone." "When I’m acting I don’t sing, and when I’m recording I’m not acting"