Determination and passion is more important than motivation. Motivation is limited, it is a feeling that can last from a minute to as long as years, but it always ends. This idea that motivation is needed to create beautiful artwork is only partially true. But this determination, this strong sense of will allows anything to last for as long as you want it to. Whether it’s deciding you want to make a difference in this world by creating artwork that moves people, that educated people, that brings importance to people’s feelings or even the act of loving the same person all your life. Rather than trying desperately to find new sources of motivation to keep you on track, you could replace that with determination. You could force yourself to sit at a desk and stare at a blank piece of paper for hours and hours until you finally create something. Or you could spend hours and hours creating random pieces of work that in the end results to something amazing.
Even the act of love requires determination. It’s incredibly difficult to love someone all your life if you base it on this feeling that will likely not even last a few years. I’m a strong believer in this idea that if you’re going to love someone, you’re going to need to want it incredibly badly. You’re going to learn their beauties, their flaws, their small habits. Not to romanticise them, not to say how every little thing adds up to one giant beautiful human being. That’s bullshit. You need to do it because you want them, you want to find out more about them. You want to work with them in building a beautiful future. This can require knowing what works and what doesn’t work and what needs fixing. You keep your interest in someone not because of feelings but because you want to. They fascinate you as a person. They’re interesting, they’re independent, they’re their own selves with or without you.