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David Bayles - From the Artists category:
There is no ready vocabulary to describe the ways in which artists become artists, no recognition that artists must learn to be who they are - even as they cannot help being who they are. (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
-Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking...
Artists come together with the clear knowledge that when all is said and done, they will return to their studio and practice art alone. Period. That simple truth may be the deepest bond we share. (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Creativity category:
Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them. (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Fear category:
What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears continue; those who don't, quit. (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Frustration category:
The artist's life is frustrating not because the passage is slow, but because he imagines it to be fast. (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Growth category:
The seeds of your next work lie embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Guidance category:
Imperfections are your guides - valuable, reliable, objective, non-judgemental guides - to matters you need to reconsider or develop further. (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Knowledge category:
-Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking...
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. (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Language category:
We have a language that reflects how we learn to paint, but not how we learn to paint our paintings. How do you describe the (reader to place words here) that changes when craft swells to art? (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Perfection category:
The seed of your next art work lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Problems category:
To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question. (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Production category:
For most artists, making good art depends upon making lots of art. (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Rules category:
We do not long remember those artists who followed the rules more diligently than anyone else. (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Satisfaction category:
The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars. (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Skill category:
Artists get better by sharpening their skills or by acquiring new ones; they get better by learning to work, and by learning from their work. (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Survival category:
Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures. (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Talent category:
Even at best, talent remains a constant, and those who rely upon that gift alone, without developing further, peak quickly and soon fade to obscurity. (David Bayles)
David Bayles - From the Time category:
The message across time from the painted bison and the carved ivory seal speaks not of the differences between the makers of that art and ourselves, but of the similarities. Today these similarities lay hidden beneath urban complexity - audience, critics, economics, trivia - in a self-conscious world. Only in those moments when we are truly working on our own work do we recover the fundamental connection we share with all makers of art. (David Bayles)
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