Process Quotes

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We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and… — Carl Jung
I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not… — Hans Arp
You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well. — Charles de Lint
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight… — Winston Churchill
Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process. — William James
I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals,… — Denise Levertov
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar. — Oscar Wilde
In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a… — Albert Schweitzer
Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners,… — George Carlin
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… — James Joyce
From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness… — Arthur Koestler
Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral… — Jay Leno
Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than… — Grace Hopper
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. — Gail Sheehy
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear… — Joel Salatin
Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental… — Claes Oldenburg
Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of...… — Edward de Bono
As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned… — Charles Baudelaire

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