Doubt, and questioning, is with us all at times. In this, we are in the best of company:
“The painter who has no doubt about his own abilities will attain very little.” Leonardo da Vinci
Along the same lines, the art critic Robert Hughes wrote: “The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”
…and from the 76 year-old Monet, whilst painting the Water Lilies, “I’m in a state of impossible anxiety. I’ve ruined the good pieces by trying to improve them, and now I have to try to fix it at all costs….For the time being, I can’t leave here and I can’t see anyone.”
Break-a-Brush!
David
“I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.” Edgar Degas
“Modest doubt is the beacon of the wise.” William Shakespeare