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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

Edgar Degas
One Day, May, Conception
"Degas Danse Dessin (Mad About Drawing)". Book by Paul Valery (1935) translated by David Paul (p. 64), 1989.
You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.