In the book "Art & Fear," a ceramics teacher divides his class into two groups to grade them differently—one on the QUANTITY of work produced and the other on the QUALITY of a single piece.

Surprisingly, the best and most creative ceramics were made by the QUANTITY group. This illustrates that repeated practice and learning from mistakes lead to

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If your intention is to ‘make art’, then maybe you’ll get a couple of good paintings. You may even get a show or two.

But I think of it this way: I don’t make art. I make things. Framing it like that keeps what I’m doing from becoming precious. And that’s a good thing, because to be precious is to be timid—and that’s bad. Creativity requires

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A great lil story from the book Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland:

The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.

His procedure was

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