The lessons you are meant to learn are in your work. To see them, you need only look at the work clearly - without judgment, without need or fear, without wishes or hopes. Without emotional expectations. Ask your work what it needs, not what you need. Then set aside your fears and listen, the way a good parent listens to a child
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking (ed. Image Continuum Press, 2001) - ISBN: 9780961454722