Artmaking involves skills that can be learned. . . In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work….

Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art.

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 o….

Tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding..

Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending..

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, wi….

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 ….

We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture..

Making art now means working in the face of uncertainty; it means living with doubt and contradiction, doing something no one much cares whether you ….

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 things, finding a….

There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwor….

The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that guides them. For the artisan, craft is ….

What you need to know about the next piece is contained in the last piece. The place to learn about your materials is in the last use of your materi….

The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. Such imperfections are your guides - valuable, objective, non….

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 ….

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call ….

Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execu….

Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work..

Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be..

Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resis….