in every art, conflicts arise, it's the way, the process is about wrestling with your own tension, stretching those muscles and tendons, massaging the skin within, undoing entanglements and knots, because you may not even know it but you are reaching for a zen point. zen man, everything else dissipates, hunger, anger, ego, pride, shame, you just work right through that, leaving a trail of words or paintings or whatever it is, you just push and push it all out, until zen.
in zen there's nothing else but the perfect thought and its expression, the principle all artists want to reach i think.
i work with the idea everything is not real, not what it actually is, the only way we can understand it or glimpse it is within a magickal framework. 
magick is a process like art, it's about creation, expression and action and the relationship between them. one can get stuck in the details but it really is all focused on directing ones will. 
be careful what you will for is all i have to say about that, i think the best magickians and artists are the ones whom put their craft above their desires, because the desire becomes the intention and whatever currents are running leak out, i find it best to desire nothing, no outcome, no expectation, in fact forget the spell you just cast, forget it by not remembering it, thats why sigils were invented, a subconscious tool.
art is magick and magick is art!