Work

Let me start off by saying that I really hate it when people call their art their "work". This really irritates me! I think it sounds very pretentious. That being said, art is work. Let me bring up another Edison quote:

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

Art is a lot of work! I think that a lot of potential art simply never comes into being because no one sits down and does the hours and hours of work involved in getting it from the idea stage to the "exists" stage. Getting the idea is exciting and the completed painting is cool, but in between is work to be done.