Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them.

What you need to know about the next piece is contained in the last piece. The place to learn about your materials is in the last use of your materials. The place to learn about your execution is in your execution. Put simply, your work is your guide: a complete, comprehensive, limitless reference book on your work.

Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much

The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.

We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.

Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them.

The lessons you are meant to learn are in your work. To see them, you need only look at the work clearly - without judgment, without need or fear, without wishes or hopes. Without emotional expectations. Ask your work what it needs, not what you need. Then set aside your fears and listen, the way a good parent listens to a child