Its Shane

“Super sincere Steve Perry sent his voice soaring over smashing cymbals and power-ballad guitars that pounded the rink walls with crashing waves as cooing couples skated close.”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

“Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art. And tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.”
― David Bayles, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“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

“It is, after all, hard to imagine placing a full-time teaching career atop a full-time artmaking career without something going awry in the process. As the old proverb cautions: if you chase two rabbits, you catch neither.”
― David Bayles, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking