The hardest part of artmaking is living your life in such a way that your work gets done, over and over- and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful. A piece of art is the surface expression of a life lived within productive patterns. ... Once you have found the work you are meant to do, the particulars of any single piece don't matter all that much.

-Art and Fear Observations on the Perils and Rewards of Artmaking -David Bayles and Ted Orland