George: We say that how we are that day made us do that picture and we have to respect that. If you have another thought, that's another picture; it would be another one.

George: When we're actually creating the pictures, it's a very, very heavy day. We get up at six, the cafes near us open at six, have a quick breakfast and we start and we work normally around the clock or a little bit more, but never less. | Gilbert: But it depends what we are doing. If we are taking images, we have to be creative, so we have to be loose, we have to dream more. And we… it cannot be rigid, no, because we have to feel the world. And then even when we do the design we have to be totally free, we always jump in and out of the studio, back in the street, walk up and down, come back in again, do another drawing, run out again… that’s how we do it, like we always say we are doing it like being in a black bag. We don’t want to know, that’s our motto always, don’t know, we’re just feeling it. But then once the designs are done, the initial design, then we never change, and after that it’s only making it, and making it we are doing it many, many hours, we do 8 hours, 9 hours a day. | In: John Tusa (2005). The Janus Aspect: Artists in the Twenty-first Century. p. 124: Transcript of the John Tusa Interview with Gilbert and George (online)