Here's a provocative excerpt from a letter written by American painter Georgia O'Keefe that speaks to the mysterious nature of the artistic impulse and the necessity of trusting it:
Making the unknown—known—in terms of one’s medium is all-absorbing—if you stop to think of the form—as form you are lost—The artist’s form must be inevitable—You mustn’t even think you won’t succeed—Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing…
