So much this

“Art is making it. Art is making when it’s hard. Art is doing it under constraints. Oftentimes, the money is a questionable gift. Oftentimes the things you invent because you have to are just as worthwhile and vital as the things that are much better catered.

[…]

To survive a creative dark age, it helps to have a kind of pathological stubbornness. It also helps to be wiling to do work you don’t love while you wait for the chance to do the work you do. [We’re] at the mercy of changes in business models and audience expectations that are bigger than any one person.

But that the people who make things, make things.”