Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?
I don't believe in inspiration. I believe in work, because while one works one's creativity is opened.
If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell.
See the last orange roses, how they blow Deeper and heavier than in their prime, In one defiant flame before they go.
The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.