David Bayles

Ted Orland

Arthur Morey

Observations On the Perils  of Artmaking

Art & Fear

erin alise 

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. 

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.  

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

Making art means working in the face of uncertainty. 

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.

lucrezia

nonostante non mi consideri un’artista, ho apprezzato ogni capitolo! oltre ad averlo letto con attenzione, la parte relativa al perfezionismo in particolare mi ha aiutata a sbloccarmi nella creazione. nulla di più vero della frase “perfectionism invites paralysis”: da quel momento ho iniziato a fare di tutto senza curarmi troppo del risultato finale.
per me, è uno di quei libri in grado di aiutarti a vedere le cose con una prospettiva diversa.

Eva Decker

I would rate this 10 stars if I could. Highly, highly recommend for any friends creating art in any form—this book is a crystal clear reference about "the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way." Totally unpretentious. Funny and concise, to boot. I will be returning to this book often.

such a great book! always nice to have it around when in doubt, a source of relief and assurance, the book version of encouragingly tapping yourself on the back 

Beau

Simon Oosterdijk

Joe Bauldoff

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Mehul Srivastava

Patricia lee

Alesandro Miracapillo

Written by artists, for artists, this survival guide explores the way art gets made, the reason it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way.

Art & Fear Observations On the Perils of Artmaking

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