I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.
Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.