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
“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
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
“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
“Designer Charles Eames, arguably the quintessential Renaissance Man of the twentieth century, used to complain good-naturedly that he devoted only about one… — David Bayles Engineering 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
“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
“Only those who commit to following their own artistic path can look back and see this issue in clear perspective: the real… — David Bayles Art 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
“As Adam Gopnik remarked in The New Yorker, “Post-modernist art is, above all, post-audience art.” In” — 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
“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 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
“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
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
“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
We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture. — 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
Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art — 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
