Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.
I say to my students that I can't teach them how to write a good song, but I can teach you how to write a better song. Talking about this idea of it being a process. By going back and not settling for something and find a way to step back from your songs-which is a very hard thing to do-but when you're stuck or you can't move forward, start doing some polishing.
My process is always the same. Maybe that's why I stay so consistent, it really doesn't change. I only know one way to record and do things.
Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.
An injury is not just a process of recovery it's a process of discovery.
As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.
Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.
Often, I'm spending months with a person in a very intimate context, getting to know the ins and outs of what they ate for breakfast, not to mention dredging up the most traumatic experiences of their lives, digging through their documents and photographs from difficult times, all of that. And that process, I think, can be extraordinarily strange for subjects who've never been interviewed before, especially if you don't acquaint them from the get-go with what you're trying to do, what it entails, and why you care.
I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual process of learning more and more about how my thinking process is different. You know it's bottom up - you take specific examples to make concepts and then I put them in categories.
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.
A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making.
Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.
We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.
Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.
Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There will be a continuity of perception.
. . . when it comes down to making work that really sings, I don't know if I can teach any of it. I don't even know if I can do any of it half the time. It's so much about failure, it's so much about making pictures that are so utterly boring and overstated, you're endlessly disappointed. And in that process you hopefully find something that draws you back and calls to you.
You learn new song until you're comfortable with it to where you can record it blindfolded, but then when it comes out on the record, you forget about those little nuances and those little things that you changed during the recording process. It's those spur-of-the-moment things you do that makes it an entirely new beast that you then again have to relearn.
What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love me or refuse to love me, with those whom I love or refuse to love.
Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.
