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# David Bayles

Researcher

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David Bayles is a researcher.

## Quick Facts About David Bayles

Profession Researcher

## About David Bayles

researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-0160-6624)...

##  Quotes by David Bayles

> [Tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/tolerance-for-uncertainty-is-the-prerequisite-to-succeeding/)

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[Doubt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/)

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> [Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/lesson-for-the-day-vision-is-always-ahead-of-execution-and-it-should/)

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[Ahead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ahead/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f38/david-bayles-13995_dreams_lesson-for-the-day-vision-is-always-ahea_1052951.jpg)

> [“To require perfection is to invite paralysis.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/to-require-perfection-is-to-invite-paralysis/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/718/david-bayles-13995_art_to-require-perfection-is-to-invite-paral_3015592.jpg)

> [The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/the-seed-of-your-next-artwork-lies-embedded-in-the-imperfections-of/)

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[Art inspiration](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art-inspiration-10938/)

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> [Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/art-is-like-beginning-a-sentence-before-you-know-its-ending/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b6/david-bayles-13995_art_art-is-like-beginning-a-sentence-before_2257726.jpg)

> [“Art is human. Error is human. Art is error.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/art-is-human-error-is-human-art-is-error/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bb/david-bayles-13995_art_art-is-human-error-is-human-art-is-error_2358985.jpg)

> [“Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/something-about-making-art-has-to-do-with-overcoming-things-giving-us/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0af/david-bayles-13995_art_something-about-making-art-has-to-do-wit_2336379.jpg)

> [Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/even-talent-is-rarely-distinguishable-over-the-long-run-from/)

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[Hard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hard/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f6/david-bayles-13995_hard_even-talent-is-rarely-distinguishable-ov_1245419.jpg)

> [We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/we-have-to-construct-communities-of-artists-because-they-don-t/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e4/david-bayles-13995_art_we-have-to-construct-communities-of-arti_3014698.jpg)

> [“Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art. And tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/uncertainty-is-the-essential-inevitable-and-all-pervasive-companion/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36a/david-bayles-13995_art_uncertainty-is-the-essential-inevitable_803317.jpg)

> [Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/talent-may-get-someone-off-the-starting-blocks-faster-but-without-a/)

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[Block](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/block/)

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> [Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/uncertainty-is-the-essential-inevitable-and-all-pervasive-companion-2/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbb/david-bayles-13995_art_uncertainty-is-the-essential-inevitable_3195777.jpg)

> [“It’s a simple premise: follow the leads that arise from contact with the work itself, and your technical, emotional and intellectual pathway…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/it-s-a-simple-premise-follow-the-leads-that-arise-from-contact-with/)

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[Leadership](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/leadership/)

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> [“As Adam Gopnik remarked in The New Yorker, “Post-modernist art is, above all, post-audience art.” In”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/as-adam-gopnik-remarked-in-the-new-yorker-post-modernist-art-is-above/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b68/david-bayles-13995_art_as-adam-gopnik-remarked-in-the-new-yorke_2344074.jpg)

> [Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/nature-places-a-simple-constraint-on-those-who-leave-the-flock-to-go/)

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[Admonition](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/admonition/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c49/david-bayles-13995_admonition_nature-places-a-simple-constraint-on-tho_1348459.jpg)

> [What you need to know about the next piece is contained in the last piece. The place to learn about your materials…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-next-piece-is-contained-in-the-last/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e9/david-bayles-13995_art_what-you-need-to-know-about-the-next-pie_1272604.jpg)

> [“But while mastering technique is difficult and time-consuming, it’s still inherently easier to reach an already defined goal — a “right answer”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/but-while-mastering-technique-is-difficult-and-time-consuming-it-s/)

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[Angel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/angel/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/389/david-bayles-13995_angel_but-while-mastering-technique-is-difficu_72963.jpg)

> [Artmaking involves skills that can be learned. . . In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/artmaking-involves-skills-that-can-be-learned-in-large-measure/)

[David Bayles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bayles/)

[Accept yourself](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accept-yourself/)

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> [Look at your work and it tells you how it is when you hold back or when you embrace. When you are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/look-at-your-work-and-it-tells-you-how-it-is-when-you-hold-back-or/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19b/david-bayles-13995_art_look-at-your-work-and-it-tells-you-how-i_1893272.jpg)

> [“In making art you need to give yourself room to respond authentically, both to your subject matter and to your materials. Art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/in-making-art-you-need-to-give-yourself-room-to-respond-authentically/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c5/david-bayles-13995_art_in-making-art-you-need-to-give-yourself_674141.jpg)

> [“Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/vision-uncertainty-and-knowledge-of-materials-are-inevitabilities/)

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[Acknowledge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acknowledge/)

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> [“It is, after all, hard to imagine placing a full-time teaching career atop a full-time artmaking career without something going awry in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/it-is-after-all-hard-to-imagine-placing-a-full-time-teaching-career/)

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[Career](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/career/)

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> [You make good work by (among other things) making lots of work that isn't very good, and gradually weeding out the parts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/you-make-good-work-by-among-other-things-making-lots-of-work-that-isn/)

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[Closest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/closest/)

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> [To all viewers but yourself, what matters is the product: the finished artwork. To you, and you alone, what matters is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/to-all-viewers-but-yourself-what-matters-is-the-product-the-finished/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/117/david-bayles-13995_art_to-all-viewers-but-yourself-what-matters_2894983.jpg)

> [“But is the Mona Lisa really art? Well then, what about an undetectably perfect copy of the Mona Lisa? That comparison (however…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/but-is-the-mona-lisa-really-art-well-then-what-about-an-undetectably/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [“There were counter-protests, of course, and in the end Mapplethorpe’s work was exhibited, but the message to the arts community was clear:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/there-were-counter-protests-of-course-and-in-the-end-mapplethorpe-s/)

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[American revolution](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-revolution/)

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> [Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/art-is-a-high-calling-fears-are-coincidental-coincidental-sneaky-and/)

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[Achievement](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/achievement/)

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> [“In essence, art lies embedded in the conceptual leap between pieces, not in the pieces themselves. And simply put, there’s a greater…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/in-essence-art-lies-embedded-in-the-conceptual-leap-between-pieces/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/in-the-end-it-all-comes-down-to-this-you-have-a-choice-or-more/)

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[Best shot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/best-shot/)

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> [“Making art depends upon noticing things — things about yourself, your methods, your subject matter. Sooner or later, for instance, every visual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/making-art-depends-upon-noticing-things-things-about-yourself-your/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [“Over time, the life of a productive artist becomes filled with useful conventions and practical methods, so that a string of finished…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/over-time-the-life-of-a-productive-artist-becomes-filled-with-useful/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [“Fears arise when you look back, and they arise when you look ahead. If you're prone to disaster fantasies, you may even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/fears-arise-when-you-look-back-and-they-arise-when-you-look-ahead-if/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [“There is no ready vocabulary to describe the ways in which artists become artists, no recognition that artists must learn to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/there-is-no-ready-vocabulary-to-describe-the-ways-in-which-artists/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [“The desire to make art begins early. Among the very young this is encouraged (or at least indulged as harmless) but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/the-desire-to-make-art-begins-early-among-the-very-young-this-is/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [“To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/to-the-artist-all-problems-of-art-appear-uniquely-personal-well-that/)

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[Activity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/activity/)

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> [“HENRY JAMES once proposed three questions you could productively put to an artist’s work. The first two were disarmingly straightforward: What was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/henry-james-once-proposed-three-questions-you-could-productively-put/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [The lessons you are meant to learn are in your work. To see them, you need only look at the work clearly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/the-lessons-you-are-meant-to-learn-are-in-your-work-to-see-them-you/)

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[Asks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/asks/)

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> [“Only those who commit to following their own artistic path can look back and see this issue in clear perspective: the real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/only-those-who-commit-to-following-their-own-artistic-path-can-look/)

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[Acceptance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acceptance/)

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> [The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/the-difference-between-art-and-craft-lies-not-in-the-tools-you-hold/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. Such imperfections are your guides - valuable,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bayles/the-seed-of-your-next-artwork-lies-embedded-in-the-imperfections-of-2/)

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[Artist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/)

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## David Bayles by topic

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                        "text": "Look at your work and it tells you how it is when you hold back or when you embrace. When you are lazy, your art is lazy; when you hold back, it holds back; when you hesitate, it stands there staring, hands in its pockets. But when you commit, it comes on like blazes.",
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                        "text": "“It is, after all, hard to imagine placing a full-time teaching career atop a full-time artmaking career without something going awry in the process. As the old proverb cautions: if you chase two rabbits, you catch neither.”",
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                        "text": "You make good work by (among other things) making lots of work that isn't very good, and gradually weeding out the parts that aren't good, the parts that aren't yours. It's called feedback, and it's the most direct route to learning about your own vision. It's also called doing your work. After all, someone has to do your work, and you're the closest person around.",
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                        "text": "To all viewers but yourself, what matters is the product: the finished artwork. To you, and you alone, what matters is the process: the experiences of shaping that artwork. The viewers' concerns are not your concerns (although it'd dangerously easy to adopt their attitudes.) Their job is wahtever it is: to be moved by art, to be entertained by it, to make a killing off it, whatever. Your job is to learn to work on your work.",
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                        "text": "“But is the Mona Lisa really art? Well then, what about an undetectably perfect copy of the Mona Lisa? That comparison (however sneaky) points up the fact that it’s surprisingly difficult, maybe even impossible, to view any single work in isolation and rule definitively, “This is art” or “This is craft.” Striking that difference means comparing successive pieces made by the same person. In”",
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                        "text": "“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 far from the innocuous, and the axe would fall. Call it selective censorship: freedom of expression was guaranteed unless it was expressed in a work of art. The most amazing aspect of this American morality play was not that the government would place self-interest above principle when it felt threatened, but that no one foresaw this coming from miles down the road. A reminder from history: the American Revolution was not financed with matching Grants from the Crown. COMMON”",
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                        "text": "Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance to deadlines, irritation with materials or surroundings, distraction over the achievements of others - indeed as anything that keeps you from giving your work your best shot. What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit.",
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                        "text": "“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 from one work of art to the next than from one work of craft to the next. The net result is that art is less polished — but more innovative — than craft. The differences between five Steinway grand pianos — demonstrably works of consummate craftsmanship — are small compared to the differences between the five Beethoven Piano concerti you might perform on those instruments. A”",
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                        "text": "In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot - and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice.",
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                        "text": "“Making art depends upon noticing things — things about yourself, your methods, your subject matter. Sooner or later, for instance, every visual artist notices the relationship of the line to the picture’s edge. Before that moment the relationship does not exist; afterwards it’s impossible to imagine it not existing. And from that moment on every new line talks back and forth with the picture’s edge. People who have not yet made this small leap do not see the same picture as those who have — in fact, conceptually speaking, they do not even live in the same world.”",
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                        "text": "“Over time, the life of a productive artist becomes filled with useful conventions and practical methods, so that a string of finished pieces continues to appear at the surface. And in truly happy moments those artistic gestures move beyond simple procedure, and acquire an inherent aesthetic all their own. They are your artistic hearth and home, the working-places-to-be that link form and feeling. They become — like the dark colors and asymmetrical lilt of the Mazurka — inseparable from the life of their maker. They are canons. They allow confidence and concentration. They allow not knowing. They allow the automatic and unarticulated to remain so. Once you have found the work you are meant to do, the particulars of any single piece don’t matter all that much.”",
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                        "text": "“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 caught in the middle, staring at your half-finished canvas and fearing both that you lack the ability to finish it, and that no one will understand it if you do. 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 caught in the middle, staring at your half-finished canvas and fearing both that you lack the ability to finish it, and that no one will understand it if you do. To which the Master replied, 'What makes you think that ever changes?' That's why they're called Masters. When he raised David's discovery from an expression of self-doubt to a simple observation of reality, uncertainty became an asset. Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution -- and it should be. Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue.”",
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                        "text": "“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 persists, and sooner or later must be addressed. 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 Cunningham still photographing, Stravinsky still composing, Picasso still painting. But if making art gives substance to your sense of self, the corresponding fear is that you're not up to the task -- that you can't do it, or can't do it well, or can't do it again; or that you're not a real artist, or not a good artist, or have no talent, or have nothing to say. The line between the artist and his/her work is a fine one at best, and for the artist it feels (quite naturally) like there is no such line. 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. For many people, that alone is enough to prevent their ever getting started at all -- and for those who do, trouble isn't long in coming. Doubts, in fact, soon rise in swarms: \"I am not an artist -- I am a phony. I have nothing worth saying. I'm not sure what I'm doing. Other people are better than I am. I'm only a [student/physicist/mother/whatever]. I've never had a real exhibit. No one understands my work. No one likes my work. I'm no good. Yet viewed objectively, these fears obviously have less to do with art than they do with the artist. And even less to do with the individual artworks. After all, in making art you bring your highest skills to bear upon the materials and ideas you most care about. Art is a high calling -- fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance to deadlines, irritation with materials or surroundings, distraction over the achievements of others -- indeed anything that keeps you from giving your work your best shot. What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit. Each step in the artmaking process puts that issue to the test.”",
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                        "text": "The lessons you are meant to learn are in your work. To see them, you need only look at the work clearly - without judgment, without need or fear, without wishes or hopes. Without emotional expectations. Ask your work what it needs, not what you need. Then set aside your fears and listen, the way a good parent listens to a child",
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