Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be.

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.

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 seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.

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 an audience nor reward. 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 the work you want to make means finding nourishment within the work itself.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

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