Quotes from Ted Orland

The most distinctive quality of artmaking is the investment of the artist's own humanity in the finished piece.

For those who would make art, the basic proposition is crystal clear: finding the work you are meant to do is the central challenge of artmaking — and making that work is the central challenge of life.

When it comes to making art, our intuition is often light-years ahead of our intellect.

Where, then, does your vision of the world reside? What part of your art is drawn from history? What part is prophecy? What part is grounded in fact? What part takes wing in fantasy? These are useful questions. Do you really want to leave it to outsiders and non-artists to make up your answers for you? Many

A degree in art doesn't automatically make you an artist any more than lacking a degree precludes you from becoming an artist.

Art school is a small island of acceptance in a vast sea of disinterest.