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Rated Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking 6/10

Small book, big ideas and questions to ponder: What drives us to do what we love? What gives us the confidence to keep going and what keeps us from starting at all? First printed in 1993, one might expect some of the concepts raised in this book to be slightly out of date, but in the two and a half hours it took me to finish it, I never once felt like I was reading a sixteen-year-old observation, nor did I feel any of it crossed the line into preachy self-help nonsense.<br><br>(Full review at <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2009/12/art-fear-by-david-bayles-and-ted-orland.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>

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Published 2026-08-18 21:58 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere