[Jennifer]

Originally Posted by Art & Fear

A finished piece is, in effect, a test of correspondence between imagination and execution. And perhaps surprisingly, the more common obstacle to achieving that correspondence is not undisciplined execution, but undisciplined imagination.

It's altogether too seductive to approach your proposed work believing your materials to be more malleable than they really are, your ideas more compelling, your execution more refined.

As Stanly Kunitz once commented, "The poem in your head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language."

...The artist's life is frustrating not because the passage is slow, but because he imagines it to be fast.

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