“Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be.” — 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 push toward a 'serious' education soon exacts a heavy toll on dreams and fantasies…Yet for some the desire… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. — David Bayles Copy Share
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“In making art you need to give yourself room to respond authentically, both to your subject matter and to your materials. Art happens between… — David Bayles Copy Share
“Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art. And tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.” — David Bayles Copy Share
“HENRY JAMES once proposed three questions you could productively put to an artist’s work. The first two were disarmingly straightforward: What was the artist… — David Bayles Copy Share
