One doesn't arrive -- in words or in art -- by necessarily knowing where
one is going. In every work of art something appears that does not
previously exist, and so, by default, you work from what you know to
what you don't know. You may set out for New York but you may find
yourself as I did in Ohio. You may set out to make a sculpture and find
that time is your material. You may pick up a paint brush and find that
your making is not on canvas or wood but in relations between people.
You may set out to walk across the room but getting to what is on the
other side might take ten years. You have to be open to all
possibilities and to all routes -- circuitous or otherwise.-- Ann Hamilton
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