If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people’s professional lives, and perhaps in their emotional life as well, is that they lose interest in the third act. You sort of get tired, and indifferent, and, sometimes, defensive. And you kind of lose your capacity for astonishment – and that’s a great loss, because the world is a very astonishing place. What I feel fortunate about is that I’m still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that’s the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it. Milton Glaser
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When an artist is in his or her profession, there is no end to the wonder of the world around them. There are countless objects that captivate their attention. The will to learn never diminishes, and it is this constant thirst for knowledge that keeps them going. Even though they may be tired of what they are doing, they still see life as a spectacle that should be experienced at every turn.

It is this desire to keep learning, along with the insight that they are not done learning yet, that keeps them going. Sometimes it can seem like they are clinging to what they know, but at the same time it shows how much they still have left to learn.

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