Kevin Kelly has posted a bunch of fantastic quotations from Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking. Including:

“To you, and you alone, what matters is the process: the experience of shaping that artwork. The viewers’ concerns are not your concerns (although it’s dangerously easy to adopt their attitudes.) Their job is whatever it is: to be moved by art, to be entertained by it, to make a killing off it, whatever. Your job is to learn to work on your work” and “Those who would make art might begin by reflecting on the fate of those who preceded them: most who began, quit. To survive as an artist requires confronting these troubles. Basically, those who continue to make art are those who have learned how to continue – or more precisely, have learned how to not quit.”

Much more here. Or you could just purchase the book from Powell’s. (via Kottke)