Art and Fear
by David Bayles & Ted Orland
The messy truth of making things.
you keep stopping yourself from making things because they're not good enough yet
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Art & Fear is a quiet classic — the antidote to the myth of genius. Bayles and Orland write for the working artist, the one who doubts, hesitates, and keeps going anyway. They expose the fears that stalk every creative act — failure, exposure, insignificance — and offer the only real cure: make the work anyway. Honest, unromantic, and deeply compassionate, it’s a survival guide for anyone who’s ever stared down a blank page.
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