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“It was perhaps an effect of such surroundings that my mind early acquired a shade of melancholy.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete H.P. Lovecraft Collection

“Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be.”
― David Bayles, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“Making art depends upon noticing things — things about yourself, your methods, your subject matter. Sooner or later, for instance, every visual artist notices the relationship of the line to the picture’s edge. Before that moment the relationship does not exist; afterwards it’s impossible to imagine it not existing. And from that moment on every new line talks back and forth with the picture’s edge. People who have not yet made this small leap do not see the same picture as those who have — in fact, conceptually speaking, they do not even live in the same world.”
― David Bayles, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“Mathematics, such as appertain to painting, are necessary to the painter, also the absence of companions who are alien to his studies: his brain must be versatile and susceptible to the variety of objects which it encounters, and free from distracting cares.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life