Artist Sarah Sze was interviewed in the New York Times’s feature titled “Artist’s Questionnaire.” This was my favorite question and answer.

Which work of your own do you regret or would [you] do differently now?

I guess I would say that I don’t think of work that way. Work doesn’t always get better — we know that. When you make something that you feel is very strong, there’s a sense of dread because it’s like, What can you make next?

And sometimes the thing that’s next is struggle. Creative resilience is really important; you have to work through bad work to get to good work. The work that doesn’t work makes the next work that does.

(Marisa Mazria-Katz, “An Artist Who’s Been Making Work About Life and Death Since Chldhood,” New York Times, 7-2-24)

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