Making art now means working in the face of uncertainty; it means living with doubt and contradiction, doing something no one much cares whether you do, and for which there may be neither audience nor reward.
(p.2)
Becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal and in following your own voice, which makes your work distinctive. (p.3)

Art is made by ordinary people. Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them. Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did. (P.4-5)

To you and you alone, what matters is the process: the experience of shaping that artwork. The viewers' concerns are not your concerns.(p.5)