Probably it would be unwise to say too much about my job. After all, any “artist” with a profession is bound to have an ambivalent attitude towards it: one loves it sometimes for not being one’s art, and hates it sometimes for the same reason. I don’t think that, if one needs money, being an artist is sufficient excuse for shirking the job that feeds one, and I try to do mine conscientiously for that reason alone….The best thing to do is to try to be utterly schizoid about it all – using each personality as a refuge from the other.
Philip Larkin on having a day job (via austinkleon)
