Friday, February 22, 2013

Habit is the Muse

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
-William James

When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.
-Jasper Johns

The skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
-Virginia Woolf

Habit is more powerful than will. If you get in the habit of painting every day, nothing will keep you from painting.
-Irwin Greenberg

Habits can be bad things or good, but the reasons they become habits is because we do them so often, they become natural to us. Painting or not painting can become habit. It all depends on you...
-Carolyn Henderson

Paint something every day.
-David Hockney

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
-Tuli Kupferberg

If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.
-Martin Mull

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
-Pablo Picasso

As you get more and more into the habit of painting, you develop your inside relation with the process.
-Joseph Tany

Ninety-five percent of each day is habitual; if you create you leave the familiar.
-Doris White

The beautiful flip side of inertia is that it can also work in our favor. Once you've developed your habits properly, it starts taking more effort to stop the process than to keep going.
-Clint Watson

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