Artistic Delay Quotes

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.

When you create art, the world has to wait.

Mr. C. Klackner has for sale four etchings etched by myself, at the expense of two years' time & hard work - 'The Life Line,' 'Peril on the Sea,' 'Eight Bells,' 'Mending Tears,' - all of which are very good and should have been put forward long ago, but C. Klackner is waiting for me to die, is my idea of the matter.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.

It took me 29 years to finish that song. That's a typical Jardine move.

As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.

What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?

Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.