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“Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.”

Want Writing I Can Ideas Waiting Painting Activity Sitting Staring Productive Trailers Hurry Up And Wait

Author:Lucas Neff

“For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.”

Film House Waiting Television Painting Theater Tables Coffee Rings Reaching Serving Surviving Brass Waiting Tables

Author:Kate Walsh

“I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.”

Beautiful Time Waiting Common Painting Scene Succeed Draws Details Veils

Book:Thomas Cole

Source: Thomas Cole

“In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this and that and this, my God! Why haven't I seen this until now? I can hardly wait to get to the studio and make the vision real.”

Ifs Way May I Can Real Waiting Vision Darkness Havens Painting Studios Bedroom

Author:Jules Olitski

“You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.”

Young Waiting Painting Listening Music Is Aspect Fingers Toms Sophisticated Toolbox

Author:Elvis Costello

“Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result of various stimuli. The artist's internal world is waiting to be evoked by whatever means the artist finds most productive, and... this world is just as important as the outer, visible world.”

World Feels Mean Important Form Artist Given Waiting Results This World Painting Various Surface Contemporary Painter Landscape Visible Productive Internals Stimulus

Author:Edward Betts

“Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to each other can be an accident waiting to happen.”

Light Happens Values Next Waiting Dark Attention Color Painting Oil Accidents Dimensions Pigment

Author:Robert Warren

“This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.”

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is laziness. It is so easy to drift and finally be tossed up on the beach, derelict.”

Way Easy Waiting Painting Planning Beach Laziness Derelict

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.”

Knows Way Shows Problem Waiting Painting Solutions Patience One Way Invites Muse Crops

Author:Carole Katchen

“I personally prefer working digitally because it allows me to work quickly and cleanly. I don't have to buy paint or brushes or canvases, I don't have to wait for paintings to dry before sending them to clients, I don't have to photograph or scan my final work, and I can make edits immediately and easily.”

I Can Waiting Painting Paint Finals Photograph Dry Clients Brushes Edits

Author:Julie Dillon

“I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.”

Done Kids School Faces Waiting Animal Party Teacher Magic Painting Hair Tables Paint Selling Clown Highlights Balloons School Teachers Nannies Elmo Pre School

Author:Diora Baird

“Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl waiting at a bus stop on his morning commute for weeks, and has been trying to find a way to approach her. He thought it would be fun to put up a Missed Connections poster [of my painting] on the corner where she waits and see what happens. It is kind of an intriguing idea but there's something a bit too manipulative about it for my liking. It's a fine line between being creative and stalking!”