Inspire Your Art (2)

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun.
— Christina Rossetti, Author

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
— Charles Horton Cooley

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu

What is done in love is done well.
- Vincent Van Gogh

I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.
- Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

Inspire Your Art (1)

"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 do, and for which there may neither audience nor reward. Making the work you want to make means setting aside these doubts so that you may see clearly what you have done, and thereby see where to go next. Making the work you want to make means finding nourishment within the work itself. This is not the Age of Faith, Truth and Certainty."

Excerpt from Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
David Bayles & Ted Orland