“As Adam Gopnik remarked in The New Yorker, “Post-modernist art is, above all, post-audience art.” In” — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art. And tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means,… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“But the important point here is not that you have — or don’t have — what other artists have, but rather that… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Sometimes to see your work’s rightful place you have to walk to the edge of the precipice and search the deep chasms.… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution,… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“The discovery of useful forms is precious. Once found, they should never be abandoned for trivial reasons. It’s easy to imagine today’s… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Today, indeed, you can find urban white artists — people who could not reliably tell a coyote from a german shepherd at… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Making art depends upon noticing things — things about yourself, your methods, your subject matter. Sooner or later, for instance, every visual… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“But is the Mona Lisa really art? Well then, what about an undetectably perfect copy of the Mona Lisa? That comparison (however… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“There were counter-protests, of course, and in the end Mapplethorpe’s work was exhibited, but the message to the arts community was clear:… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“In essence, art lies embedded in the conceptual leap between pieces, not in the pieces themselves. And simply put, there’s a greater… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“The desire to make art begins early. Among the very young this is encouraged (or at least indulged as harmless) but the… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Fears arise when you look back, and they arise when you look ahead. If you're prone to disaster fantasies, you may even… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Over time, the life of a productive artist becomes filled with useful conventions and practical methods, so that a string of finished… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“HENRY JAMES once proposed three questions you could productively put to an artist’s work. The first two were disarmingly straightforward: What was… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“In making art you need to give yourself room to respond authentically, both to your subject matter and to your materials. Art… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Only those who commit to following their own artistic path can look back and see this issue in clear perspective: the real… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
What you need to know about the next piece is contained in the last piece. The place to learn about your materials… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Look at your work and it tells you how it is when you hold back or when you embrace. When you are… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art — David Bayles Copy Share Image
We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture. — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Artmaking involves skills that can be learned. . . In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
To all viewers but yourself, what matters is the product: the finished artwork. To you, and you alone, what matters is the… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“There is no ready vocabulary to describe the ways in which artists become artists, no recognition that artists must learn to be… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. — David Bayles Copy Share Image
The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. Such imperfections are your guides - valuable, objective, non-judgmental… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“But the important point here is not that you have — or don’t have — what other artists have, but rather that it doesn’t… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“In essence, art lies embedded in the conceptual leap between pieces, not in the pieces themselves. And simply put, there’s a greater conceptual jump… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“But while mastering technique is difficult and time-consuming, it’s still inherently easier to reach an already defined goal — a “right answer” — than… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“There were counter-protests, of course, and in the end Mapplethorpe’s work was exhibited, but the message to the arts community was clear: stray too… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance to deadlines,… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Sometimes to see your work’s rightful place you have to walk to the edge of the precipice and search the deep chasms. You have… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Fears arise when you look back, and they arise when you look ahead. If you're prone to disaster fantasies, you may even find yourself… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“But is the Mona Lisa really art? Well then, what about an undetectably perfect copy of the Mona Lisa? That comparison (however sneaky) points… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
