To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

Byrne frames artistic creation as a practice of informed uncertainty: the maker proceeds without full intellectual control, allowing intuition, accident, and emergent structure to guide decisions. The “happily” signals that not-knowing is not a deficiency but a productive condition—one that keeps work exploratory rather than merely executed. Calling it an “artist’s responsibility” flips the usual expectation of mastery: instead of guaranteeing outcomes, the artist is obliged to protect the space where surprise and discovery can occur. The quote also implies trust in process—confidence that meaning and coherence can arise through making, even when the creator cannot fully explain the path in advance.