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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 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 be neither audience nor reward.

More often, though, fears rise in those entirely appropriate (and frequently recurring) moments when vision races ahead of execution. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be. Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hippocrates (460-400 B.C.) Their insights and observations, drawn from personal experience, provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is experienced by artmakers themselves. Art & Fear 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. In Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, Artists David Bayles & Ted Orland 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.