What I will say is that I can’t remember a time in my adult life where I haven’t worked every day, and sometimes at a furious pace. I’ve just kept ploughing on, really, and that’s part of what you do as an artist. And I have a genuine love for the process of making things.*
Nick Cave

Always and forever, the reward is the work. It is a joy itself. It is torture and also heaven – sweaty, wonderful salvation.**
Ryan Holiday

The best way to prepare for the work is
to do the work,
And the best work we can do
is the kind that nothing and no-one will be able to take from us,
Not even retirement or unemployment;
For we are artists and workers, not because others have told us,
But because we must.

*Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan’s Faith, Hope and Carnage;
**Ryan Holiday’s Discipline is Destiny.