“Acceptance means having your work counted as the real thing; approval means having people like it.

“It’s not unusual to receive one with the other.”

Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland

“Hypostasis is…an infusion of spirit into something inert…Hypostasis is the feeling that something as dead as paint might also be deeply alive, full of thought and expressive meaning.”

James Elkins, What Painting Is

“Space exists outside subjectivity.

“If two subjects communicate in the space, then space is an element of this communication. Space modifies this communication. Space imposes its own laws on this communication.”

Ulises Carrión, The New Art of Making Books

“In my experience, it’s in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.”

Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist

“At least for the novitiate, some period of artistic recapitulation is both inevitable and, by most accounts, beneficial. …But once having allowed for that, the far greater danger is not that the artist will fail to learn anything from the past, but will fail to teach anything new to the future.”

Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland

“The space is the music of unsung poetry.”

Ulises Carrión, The New Art of Making Books

“Genius is talent set on fire by courage.”

Henry van Dyke

“Plato maintained that all art is a gift from the gods, channeled through artists who are ‘out of their mind’–quite literally, in Plato’s view—when making art.”

Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland

“In alchemy, the Latin word labor is used to describe the procedures, methods and techniques—the daily struggle with materials. Also in Latin, ora means prayer, and the alchemists never tired of point out that labor and ora spell laboratory. As in the artist’s studio, so in the alchemist’s laboratory: both of them mingle labor and ora.”

James Elkins, What Painting Is