Shirin Neshat Quotes

Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.

You can't rush an art form.

If you don't put out a shirt for eight months, that doesn't mean it took you eight months to make the shirt.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

I developed this guiding statement to stress on the fact that every good thing takes time to develop.

The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision.

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

Time is always important; sometimes time doesn't always go along with patience. It is always important. You have to deal with it. It's part of football. Every decision is judged.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

When you're writing something that is truly original it takes time.

Taking your time with music is real important to me.

Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.

It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.

Let your poem be kept nine years.

It's okay if it takes two or three years for something really good to come along, but I don't want to wait ten years for something great to come along.

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.