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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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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