Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be. — David Bayles Ahead Copy Share Image
The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. — David Bayles Art inspiration 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 Art Copy Share Image
We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture. — David Bayles Art Copy Share Image
Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work. — David Bayles Hard 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 Art Copy Share Image
“As Adam Gopnik remarked in The New Yorker, “Post-modernist art is, above all, post-audience art.” In” — David Bayles Art Copy Share Image
“It’s a simple premise: follow the leads that arise from contact with the work itself, and your technical, emotional and intellectual pathway… — David Bayles Leadership Copy Share Image
Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art — David Bayles Art Copy Share Image
Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it… — David Bayles Block 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 Art 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 Accept yourself 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”… — David Bayles Angel 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 Art Copy Share Image
Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's… — David Bayles Admonition 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 Acceptance Copy Share Image
The lessons you are meant to learn are in your work. To see them, you need only look at the work clearly… — David Bayles Asks 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 Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
You make good work by (among other things) making lots of work that isn't very good, and gradually weeding out the parts… — David Bayles Closest 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 Art 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 Achievement 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 American revolution 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 Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between… — David Bayles Best shot 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 Art 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 Art 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 Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
“It is, after all, hard to imagine placing a full-time teaching career atop a full-time artmaking career without something going awry in… — David Bayles Career 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 Acknowledge 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 Activity 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 Art 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 Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
