You can't get it right, until you make it wrong.
Gray is the queen of colors, because she makes everyone else look good.
See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.
You're afraid because you're thinking about the end, not about what you're doing.
It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.
I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.