Clear Quote by Barbara Hepworth

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

— Robert Motherwell

I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not…

— Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

— Susan Vreeland

My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of…

— Bill Viola

When there is no work, I create my own.

— Neha Dhupia

The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.

— Anne Truitt

I start by thinking I'm going to make use of all possibilities without troubling any longer about problems when something starts to be art.…

— Jan Dibbets

Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power…

— James Franco

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

— Steve Lacy

When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as…

— Eva Zeisel

… your real work is to decide what you want and then to focus upon it. For it is through focusing upon what you…

— Esther Hicks

If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material that one…

— Thomas Struth