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Mason Currey - From the Artists category:
If you're truly obsessed with a problem in your work, some part of your brain will be gnawing away at it all the time. In some sense, then, artists are always working, even when they're not. (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Consideration category:
My concern at times is nothing more than establishing a series of practical considerations that will enable me to work. For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart. (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Discipline category:
If you have to discipline yourself to achieve art, you discipline yourself. (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Eccentricity category:
Two things, life style and work, have become one. Now if that's eccentricity, then I'm eccentric. (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Habit category:
- Daily Rituals; How Artists Work...
A large number of novelists and poets... wake up early in the morning and try to get some words on the page before other obligations kick in... Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, John Updike and Vladimir Nabokov... Hemingway...William Styron... (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Habit category:
- Daily Rituals; How Artists Work...
So let's take a few moments to celebrate the night owls, of whom there are certainly plenty of illustrious examples...Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec...Friedrich Schiller... Samuel Johnson, Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust... Any Rand, George Sand...Glenn Gould... Franz Kafka... Thomas Wolfe... Mozart... (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Ideas category:
-Daily Rituals; How Artists Work...
Tchaikovsky's... walks were essential to his creativity, and he often stopped to jot down ideas that he would develop later at the piano. ...Then, again, most composers required a long (and sometimes very long) daily walk to keep the ideas flowing. (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Life category:
There was the presence only of essentials. It was an uncluttered kind of life, a simplicity deliberately constructed so that she could do her work. (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Life category:
The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work. (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Limitations category:
Having too much to do is also an unbeatable motivator. If you can truly only spare a couple hours a day for a particular task, it is amazing how much you can get done in those hours. (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Mysteries category:
The real mystery to crack is you. (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Procrastination category:
Many artists needed to procrastinate simply to ratchet up the pressure, whipping themselves into a state of near panic that, while bad for the nerves, is pretty good for the work. (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Repetition category:
The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind. (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Routine category:
One's daily routine is a choice, or a series of choices. In the right hands, it can be a finely calibrated mechanism for taking advantage of a range of limited resources. (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Tyranny category:
A solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one's mental energies and helps stave off the tyranny of moods. (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Work category:
Breaks are good. No one can work nonstop - and if you can, you probably shouldn't. A lot of artists have noted that it's during breaks that the 'real' work happens and new ideas or insights spring to mind. (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Work category:
If I hadn't been at work all the time, I would have been a lunatic. (Mason Currey)
Mason Currey - From the Writing category:
When I sit down to write I never brood. I have so many other things to do... I can't afford it. I brood, thinking of ideas, in the automobile when I'm driving to work or in the subway or when I'm mowing the lawn. By the time I get to the paper something's there - I can produce. (Mason Currey)
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