What is flow?

Famous quotes containing the word flow:

“On the idle hill of summer,
Sleepy with the flow of streams,”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)

“The method of painting is the natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.... I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.”
—Jackson Pollock (1912–1956)

“Water doesn’t flow if it’s level, and people won’t complain if you treat them on the level.”
—Chinese proverb.