Artistic Pace Quotes

I probably write a poem every 50 years.

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

We kind of reached this point in life where we don't really want to put out anything just to put something out. We really don't want it to be like, 'Two years are up. You've had your break; now do another record and get it out there.'

There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.

I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much narrative filmmaking is a sense of tempo and rhythm.

I used to work in TV and quit the job because I couldn't do it any more. I quite like taking my time over a film, five years is how long it takes me to work something out. And when you just do quick turnover, turnaround, I'm literally this is driving me mad, I want to find another living. I'll just have to find a creative way to tell the story.

I don't want to be a rapper that puts out, like, 600 songs a year.

The bohemian life that reigned in Paris until the end of the '50s is gone. The artists had more time to think, to reflect; success didn't come so suddenly.

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.

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

I'm the kind of cat that can finish three songs in a day. Two or three songs in a day. If my voice is up to it and I feel up to it, I can finish two or three songs in a day.

In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.

I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.

Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.

Fleetwood Mac always take a long time to make a record - you know what.

There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.

A lot of times, when artists are rushing to put out projects, it's on some financial tip because they want to make money. But for me, I'm not in any rush.

I feel that performing is its own art form, and recording is its own art form, and writing is its own art form, and that they all can happen simultaneously but at different paces.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.