“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

— Aristotle

“Once I decided to just embrace the good doubt as part of my creativity, it made it a lot easier to spot when the good doubt started to turn to bad doubt. I was able to use (and celebrate!) the good doubt—because that’s where the genius happened!—and stop the bad doubt in its tracks when it tried to rear its ugly head. It let me question and improve my plot, my ideas, the way I phrased things. without doubting myself.”

– Melissa Haveman, writer and coach

“Travel widely, experiment boldly, and love deeply.”

— Bill Cross, curator of “Homer at the Beach,” an exhibit of Winslow Homer’s seascape watercolors at the Cape Ann, MA museum, on Homer’s lessons for artists, PBS Newshour, 11/18/19

(photo, Flathead Lake, by Rebecca Bauder)

“When I’m working, I’m simply working, setting up problems visually that need resolution. In the process, I’m looking for resolution to conundrums in my life, questions in my life, as well as visually looking for problems that I can fix.”

– the late Montana artist Rick Barstow, profiled in The Missoulian, 11/15/19