Harriet Rubin in Soloist said:
“Painters do projects. Mozart did projects: symphonics. Architects build buildings. What all these creations have in common with work you do as a soloist is: You start with only a vague sense of knowing where you are going, and this is good because you want to exceed all known bounds. You want the project to transform you – whether it is composing a report, giving a speech, researching an analysis. You enter a world that is dangerous, dark, forbidding; the imagination.”[i]
[i] Rubin, Harriet, Soloist, NY: HarperCollins, 1999, p. 115.