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

- David Bayles

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

- David Bayles

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

- David Bayles

Tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.

- David Bayles

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…

- David Bayles

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 …

- David Bayles

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

- David Bayles

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…

- David Bayles

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 …

- David Bayles