'How Do You Know When Your Art Is Good?'

You don't. Uncertainty is what keeps you moving, inventing, and feeling everything.

Abandoned Easel #4 (1946) by Helen Lundeberg

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Dear Polly,

My guess is that I’m writing to you because I’ve been reading your work since I was nineteen and you are one of my favorite living…