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Quote card: No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching.

“No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching.”

Martha Graham, to Agnes de Mille, recorded in de Mille's Martha (1991)

Feeling your work could be better is a good sign, not a bad one. It is what keeps tradespeople improving for decades.

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