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“In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.”

Ifs Want Art Done Artist Hours Crazy Creatures Projects Architecture Rip Eleventh Hour

Author:Maya Lin

“I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'”

Needs Today Artist Hours Four Sitting Okay Sitting Down

Author:Martha Wainwright

“The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.”

Knows Giving Doe Reality Artist Hours Sacrifice Conversation Giving Up

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?”

Ifs Kind Littles Stills Done Light Artist Hours Sleep Fool Bed Office Drawing Dawn Iphone Office Hours

Author:David Hockney

“It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.”

Artist Three Hours Quality Journey Cold Six Stores Snow Wet Tense Snowball

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.”

People Art Artist Hours Pay Art Is Paid

Author:Jack White

“Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle , on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair holding his wrists like Lifar and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.”

Thinking Art Said Life Is Artist Hours Worst Hair Needed Scene Art Is Mad Miles Ice Forty Worst Things Facility Wrists Skates Think Twice Gliding

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.”

Knows Years Looks Littles Artist Hours Produce Appearance Favors Neglected

Author:Vanna Bonta

“I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.”

Want Art Hard Artist Term Hours Materials Findings Research Visuals Department Impress Props

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.”

Thinking Seems Artist Dies Hours Passing Passings

Author:Catherine Drinker Bowen

“other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.”

Artist Fall Actors Hours Memories Silence Darkness Stage Produce Divine Poet Musician Evidence Theater Missions Painter Curtains Sculptors

Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours.”

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Book:Selections from Eliza Leslie

Source: Selections from Eliza Leslie