Remember. . . we don't see objects, we see light. [. . . ] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.
I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.