Katie Boyts - Time

If we can accept the fundamental nature of time, if we can make it our friend and not our enemy, then I think that we can make better work. Or, at least, we can become better friends with ourselves and become more sane.

Time, itself, is a creative process.

Time is our greatest gift. Time is YOUR greatest gift.

No pressure, but I think how you spend your time, as it's your greatest gift, is immensely important to the world.

We do seem to exist, in terms of our work, and really, in most aspects of our life, in this really adversarial relationship with time.

We don't have to think of time as an adversary, we can think of it as a contributor, as a factor — or even as a collaborator.

Conversations inform culture. Conversations shift culture. And culture shifts the world. I don't think culture is a static thing, I don't think it's a fixed thing, and I don't think it's something that just happens to us. I think that we create, or we help create, or we inform, and then we take with us.

I think a lot of artists don't realize, or creatives don't realize, how much power they have. Your time is the reason you have that power. It is what makes you; it is what makes us powerful.

Artists have the power to shift conversations. They have the power to spark conversations.

It's not just how much you have, it's how you use it. And I think, you know, this ever-ticking clock is not necessarily the thing that prevents us from making more or making better. But, instead, it's a factor in the process.