I’ve always been very inspired by this quote from Nick Meglin, from his book Drawing from Within. Just thought I’d share it with you! I’m super excited for Illustration Friday tomorrow!!

“In our society we have become so achievement-oriented that we measure our efforts by results rather than by our own feelings of satisfaction. We have been encouraged to succeed through imitation rather than expand upon the individuality we naturally possess…All too often…artists interfere with that natural response and become concerned with outside considerations, especially this desire to achieve. This misdirected path usually leads to compromise, imitation, and contrivance and, ironically, actually prevents true artistic ‘achievement’…Satisfaction in any art form doesn’t come from achieving perfection, since perfection doesn’t exist in art. Satisfaction can be found instead, in the experience of aspiring to an internal form of perfection that’s measured in ‘fun’ and not some external measure, i.e., ‘Best of Show.’ ” -Nick Meglin