Stolen from Tim Ferris

“Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will, through work, bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great ‘art idea’.”-Chuck Close, American artist who achieved fame as a photorealist through massive-scale portraits