I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We’re all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

Taymor contrasts a results-driven, market-oriented emphasis on the finished “product” with a more craft-centered ethos she associates with Japan: reverence for making itself. The quote frames artistic value as residing not only in what audiences finally see, but in the disciplined, often communal practices—training, repetition, materials, and ritualized attention—that bring a work into being. By calling process “an incredibly important aspect of the total form,” she suggests that form is inseparable from method: the choices, constraints, and labor of creation shape meaning. The remark also functions as an implicit critique of cultures that commodify art, urging a reorientation toward craftsmanship, patience, and respect for makers.