`Author:` David Bayles, Ted Orland `Availability:` > [!info] > ![[Art & Fear_cover.jpg]] ## Quotes - “Life is short, and art is long,” thus began Hippocrates. He continued: “the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult.” Art is often used as a synonym for skill. It takes a long time to acquire the experience necessary to be a master. - “Vision is always ahead of execution.” - “Tolerance for uncertainty is the requirement for making [[Value|good]] art “ - "ask your work what it needs. Not what you need. Like a [[Value|good]] parent listens to their child” ## Notes Journey of the Artist The artist attracts people because they connect them to the image, and vice versa ☯️ An image, on its own, is just an image.  ‘The point is that an artwork doesn’t exist on its own, without the other elements, and at the heart of that is the artist.’ Creative Space [[Books index]] https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B007V53U54?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp #### Summery - The practicalities of practicing your art in the world. Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. The book's co-authors, David Bayles and Ted Orland, are themselves both working artists, grappling daily with the problems of making art in the real world. Their insights and observations, drawn from personal experience, provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is experienced by artmakers themselves. This is not your typical self-help book. This is a book written by artists, for artists -- it's about what it feels like when artists sit down at their easel or keyboard, in their studio or performance space, trying to do the work they need to do. ### Key Takeaways `Concepts:` [[Art]] `Knowledge Base:`