My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to or you don't have inspiration it will come.
Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent perseverance patience but without luck you will not have a successful career.
Next Article
It has taken a great deal of energy which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait simply wait much of the time – until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.