David Bayles

Ted Orland

Observations on the Perils  of Artmaking

Art and Fear

Kristof Revilak

In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice.

erin alise 

Making art means working in the face of uncertainty. 

The best you can do is to make art you care about, and lots of it. 

The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done, over and over. A piece of art is the surface expression of a life lived within productive patterns.  

Making art is chancy. It doesn’t mix well with predictability. Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable, and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art. And tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite for succeeding. 

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