that vision which blooms through endurance
Added 2024-01-22 16:52:56 +0000 UTC"When you have that vision, a calling and you feel you cant live without pursuing it, then you have to do everything you can to magnify the gift that you have. And its going to cost you, you have to be willing to sacrifice, you have to be willing to work really hard, you have to be willing to perhaps go years or quite a long time without recognition, without acknowledgement and in the face of all that you have to maintain your visionous vision.
To be a real artist, at least the way I look at art, is that it is a sacred quest. You have to remember why you want to create. If you can sacrifice and maintain your joy and enthusiasm and your curiosity and your ability to work hard you'll achieve something.
I don't care about having a career or any of that stuff. I never did. I do my work and in the process I've had some great successes, I've had things that have had me banned from the world, I've been in trouble, l've left it all behind, you know it's not important to me. What's always important to me is really to just do something good, to do something that's enduring." ~Patti Smith
