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ART & FEAR II. ART AND FEAR Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working. — Stephen DeStaebler by reflecting on the fate of those who preceded them: most who began, quit. It’s a genuine trag- edy. Worse yet, it’s.an unnecessary tragedy. After all, artists who continue:and artists who quit share an immense field of common emotional ground. (Viewed from the outside, in fact, they’re indistinguishable.) We're all subject to a familiar and universal progression of human troubles — troubles we routinely survive, but which are (oddly enough) routinely fatal to the art- making process. To survive as an artist requires con- fronting 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. Te WHO WOULD MAKE ART might well begin