David Bayles,Ted Orland

Art & Fear

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  • Daria Kazakovahas quoted6 years ago
    In the ideal — that is to say, real — artist, fears not only continue to exist, they exist side by side with the desires that complement them, perhaps drive them, certainly feed them.
  • Daria Kazakovahas quoted6 years ago
    They’re in a good position to comment on how they’re moved (or challenged or entertained) by the finished product, but have little knowledge or interest in your process.
  • Daria Kazakovahas quoted6 years ago
    Your work tells you about your working methods, your discipline, your strengths and weaknesses, your habitual gestures, your willingness to embrace.
  • Daria Kazakovahas quoted6 years ago
    Whatever they have is something needed to do their work — it wouldn’t help you in your work even if you had it. Their magic is theirs. You don’t lack it. You don’t need it. It has nothing to do with you.
  • Daria Kazakovahas quoted6 years ago
    There’s a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism no longer wounds and work materializes without their effort.
  • Daria Kazakovahas quoted6 years ago
    Such imperfections (or mistakes, if you’re feeling particularly depressed about them today) are your guides — valuable, reliable, objective, non-judgmental guides — to matters you need to reconsider or develop further.
  • Daria Kazakovahas quoted6 years ago
    demand perfection is to deny your ordinary
  • Daria Kazakovahas quoted6 years ago
    You cling ever more tightly to what you already know you can do — away from risk and exploration, and possibly further from the work of your heart.
  • Daria Kazakovahas quoted6 years ago
    Sooner or later, since you cannot do what you are trying to do, you quit. And in one of those perverse little ironies of life, only the pattern itself achieves perfection — a perfect death spiral: you misdirect your work; you stall; you quit.
  • Daria Kazakovahas quoted6 years ago
    making art is chancy — it doesn’t mix well with predictability.
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