Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles

If we want something new or different, we have to take action in that direction. Understanding and knowing ourselves, our thoughts and feelings, is just the first part—but we cannot stop there. Behavior is what leads to behavior change. We have to take action.

This subtle shift in thinking—from promoting one’s self to one’s work—can be a helpful change of perspective.

If you’ve got a spouse, or plan to share your life with someone, it’s important that you’re honest with this person about the role of your creative practice in your life—which means you need to know this for yourself.

Learning of something by accident instead of advertising is serendipitous and intimate.

Do a quick online search for “feelings list” and you’ll find a variety of them.

you are in relationship to the artists who have come before you. Whether you know it or not, you come from long lines of artists connected through identity, politics, location, experience, aesthetic, movement, and materials.

Working on your relationship to the self means a growing self-awareness. Knowing yourself well will help you in all other relationships.

three pillars of a contented artist’s life: a regular creative practice, taking in lots of art and experiences, and community.

Fear isn’t bad; it just is.