Art & Fear by David Bayles & Ted Orland

"The fear that you're only pretending to do art is the consequence of doubting your own artistic credentials."
I definitely felt that I was pretending to do art is middle school when I didn't know what to do or wasn't listening when the teacher gave us instructions. I would subtly look over to my right and left without trusting what I could do and never felt like I could call what I did art without approval from a teacher.


"Art is human; error is human. Inevitably, your work will be flawed."
I think I really understood this quote in ninth grade when we would critique other peoples work. I was amazed about what people could interpret when they looked at art and how it was normal to have different ideas and thoughts about others work. Art happens with mistakes and every part is literally flawed but that is the beauty of it.


"Admittedly, artmaking probably does require something special, but just what that something might be has remained remarkably elusive -- elusive enough to suggest that it maybe be something particular to each artist, rather than universal to them all."
Watching people create art in all the classes I have been in, has showed me about that "something special" everyone has and how everyones is different. I have been influenced by others ideas and work that I, myself could have never thought of. The process of each artists work and the finished product all have that something and thats what makes art art.