Art and Fear

As always, each reading offers a new round of thoughtful questions, and the reassurance that I don't toil alone. A comforting, beautiful book.

This is as close to an art/design bible as you can get. Empowering, emphatic, challenging, and brutally honest. I'll read this book once a year probably for the rest of my life. It gave clarity to thoughts that have been rattling around my head for years. It gave me hope for things I'd long since considered to be ‘the way things are'. And it spoke confidence into my being as it dwells in an industry and thought world which is often ambiguous and, at it's worst, perilous. I can't wait to dive deeper into some of the parts I underlined and give time to some thoughts I had along the way.

i read this 1.5 times, because i approached it for the first 50 pages as a standard self-help book and was looking for bolded phrases and Action Items and end-of-chapter exercises. it isn't that, but if you read it slowly and thoughtfully (it's only 100 pages) and, if you're like me, with a pen and paper in hand, there are some really valuable insights in here.