Quote of the Day

Turn your day into a timetable, unvarying, implacable. However impulses may tempt, they must be sternly denied except in the time allowed for them. The artist too often believes that he must sit about in readiness for the kind attentions of the muse, but that amiable creature quickly learns to be on time for her appointments…Inspiration is not a flame, like the Holy Ghost, but a potency gleaming in us like a nightlight, which should glow brightly in working hours…Inspiration has a just right to weekends off.

—Amédée Ozenfant, “The Life of the Artist Today”