“When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.” WayPurposeArtistValuesGoalCreativityHabitDemandAchievementExpectationsResourcesUltimateManagePurityMasteryContinuityValidationUltimate Goal Author:Twyla Tharp
“It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important--and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year. This is what is expected of novelists. And I have never been really too much concerned with doing what is expected of novelists, or writers, or artists. I want to do what I believe is important.” WantNeedsWritingYearsBelieveTwoImportantArtistI BelieveEasyNovelToo MuchHabitConcernedPressureExpectedTechniqueNovelistsTwo YearsRoutineNot InterestedImprovingAvoidingEasy To GetTime Of Need Author:Chinua Achebe
“The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.” MenEyeAgeArtistAnimalHabitCivilizationClothesPriestsBankersDwellingBourgeois Author:Honore de Balzac
“One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit.” PeopleCharacterArtistReaderHabitInvolvedAverageGreat ThingsComicDevotedCasual Author:Charlie Huston
“The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation.” PeopleShouldSelfArtistBirthHabitDeliberateDistinguishedInitiationBrahmins Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your laurels, never think about what you've done in the past.” ThinkingDonePastArtistFallChallengesHabitLaurelsChallenge Yourself Author:Jonathan Lethem
“An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means of a light bulb flashing on, above the head of a character who has suddenly grasped an idea. In simple, primitive terms, this is an appropriate symbol.” MenMeanIdeasSoulCharacterLightArtistTermSimpleHabitSymbolsComicAppropriatePrimitiveRepresentingBulbsLight BulbComic Strips Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.” MeanDifferentEndsSelfMatterArtistPassionOur LivesPrideHabitAppearanceContraryPracticalsImpressionOperationsEngagedLabourCommunionTerminology Book:Remembrance of Things Past: Time regained Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Time regained
“As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As an artist, I frankly write about what I like in architecture: complexity and contradiction. From what we find we like-what we are easily attracted to-we can learn much of what we really are.” WritingTryingPastArtistHabitConsciousArchitectureComplexityContradictionArchitectPrecedent Author:Robert Venturi
“Always have clear lines of communication and be open to trying new ideas. Being open to new ideas is crucial to growing as an artist. If you always have the same creative habits, how will you ever excel to the next level? The answer is, you won't. Taking those creative risks reaps the most incredible rewards.” IfsTryingIdeasArtistNextLinesAnswersLevelsCreativeClearGrowingRiskCommunicationHabitRewardsIncrediblesCrucialNew IdeasReapNext LevelLines Of Communication Author:Wendy Starland
“I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into that have worked in commercial ventures.” ThinkingArtistStuffHabitBossImaginaryClientsVenture Author:Wayne White
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.” PainHappinessArtistEvilInterestingTroubleStupidHabitTerribleIntellectualBoredomConsideringRefusalBad HabitsTreasonBanalityPendants Author:Ursula K. Le Guin