«Fear that your next work will fail is a normal, recurring and generally healthy part of the artmaking cycle. It happens all the time: you focus on some new idea in your work, you try it out, run with it for a while, reach a point of diminishing returns, and eventually decide it’s not worth pursuing further. Writers even have a phrase for it -«the pen has run dry»- but all the media have their equivalents«.

Art and Fear es una guía de supervivencia para artistas escrita por David Bayles y Ted Orland que explora la forma en que el arte se realiza y las razones por las cuales, a menudo, no se consigue realizar, destapando la naturaleza de las dificultades que provocan que muchos artistas no consigan su objetivo y, en el peor de los casos, lo dejen.