All art must inevitably end in failure. This is, clearly, no reason for surrender. Ever tried. Ever failed. Never mind. Try again. Fail better.

-Samuel Beckett

"An artist has to be careful to never think that he's arrived somewhere, he has to be in a constant state of becoming."

-Bob Dylan

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains. -Marcel Proust