Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland.

• Title: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
• Author: David Bayles and Ted Orland​
  
  
  

Ideas in head are easier

Often the work we have not done seems more real in our minds than the pieces we have completed. And so questions arise: How does art get done?


Ideas in head are easier

Often the work we have not done seems more real in our minds than the pieces we have completed. And so questions arise: How does art get done?


Making art with no audience

Making art now means working in the face of uncertainty; it means living with doubt and contradiction, doing something no one much cares whether you do, and for which there may be neither audience nor reward.


Be your own voice

In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal, and in following your own voice, which makes your work distinctive.


The motivation of doing art

Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working. - Stephen DeStaebler

Art is me and me is art
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And with good reason: your desire to make art — beautiful or meaningful or emotive art — is integral to your sense of who you are. Life and Art, once entwined, can quickly become inseparable; at age ninety Frank Lloyd Wright was still designing, Imogen Cunning-ham still photographing, Stravinsky still composing, Picasso still painting.

Expose

But most art has no customer, and in making it you reveal truths you probably never expected. Through the very contact with what you love, you have exposed yourself to the world.

Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland.