padla

David Bayles quote ✍️

Quote

The desire to make art begins early. Among the very young this is encouraged (or at least indulged as harmless) but the push toward a 'serious' education soon exacts a heavy toll on dreams and fantasies.... Yet for some the desire persists, and sooner or later must be addressed. And with good reason: your desire to make art -- beautiful or meaningful or emotive art -- is integral to your sense of who you are. Life and Art, once entwined, can quickly become inseparable; at age ninety Frank Lloyd Wright was still designing, Imogen Cunningham still photographing, Stravinsky still composing, Picasso still painting. But if making art gives substance to your sense of self, the corresponding fear is that you're not up to the task -- that you can't do it, or can't do it well, or can't do it again; or that you're not a real artist, or not a good artist, or have no talent, or have nothing to say. The line between the artist and his/her work is a fine one at best, and for the artist it feels (quite naturally) like there is no such line. Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be. For many people, that alone is enough to prevent their ever getting started at all -- and for those who do, trouble isn't long in coming. Doubts, in fact, soon rise in s
David Bayles Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils… art fear

Related Quotes

There were some children round him playing in the dust on the paths. They had long fair hair, and with very earnest faces and solemn attention were making little mountains of sand …
Guy de Maupassant Pierre et Jean children love women
The leap of faith is this: You have to believe, or at least pretend you believe until you really believe it, that you are strong enough to take life face on. Eating disorders, on a…
Marya Hornbacher Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia belief drama mirror sadomasochism
Two fears alternate in marriage, of loneliness and of bondage. The dread of loneliness being keener than the fear of bondage, we get married. For one person who fears being thus ti…
Cyril Connolly The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palin… freedom loneliness love marriage

Similar Crossword Answers

Answer Clues
ART 2083 clues
LOVE 708 clues
FEAR 467 clues
DRAMA 454 clues
FREEDOM 187 clues
WOMEN 176 clues
BELIEF 152 clues
MIRROR 107 clues
MARRIAGE 41 clues
SADOMASOCHISM 39 clues
CHILDREN 38 clues
LONELINESS 36 clues

Similar crossword clues

  1. David Ben-__ 76.19%
  2. DAVID ___ STIERS 66.67%
  3. David father 66.67%
  4. David, e.g. 66.67%
  5. David's aide. 66.67%
  6. "David and ___" 66.67%
  7. David Crosby "Oh Yes ___" 64.52%
  8. David and others 64.29%
  9. David Bowie song 64.29%
  10. David Bowie: "Blue ___" 64.29%
  11. David Addison 64.00%
  12. David, notably 64.00%
  13. David or Saul. 64.00%
  14. David wife 63.64%
  15. David's rebel son 62.07%
  16. David Frye is one 62.07%
  17. David in Maryland 62.07%
  18. David and Edwards 62.07%
  19. David's adversary 62.07%
  20. David Frye, e.g. 61.54%
✏️ Suggest new clue

Related word tools

Unscramble DAVID5-letter words that start with D5-letter words that end in D5-letter words containing AV5-letter words containing ID5-letter words with D and A
Often perfumed powder
?
T
?
A
?
L
?
C
Hint 1 meaning
A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety.
Hint 2 anagram
ATLC
Hint 3 another clue
BABY DOCTOR FOR SHORT
Play Crossword
9 +1

New Crossword Suggestion

Clue
Answer (solution)