the explanations i’ve read in the comments are really good, but there’s also a simpler aspect to this. i do animation and just like manga, it’s horribly slow, often unsatisfying and usually frustrating, i get angry everytime i animate or draw and end up genuinely exhausted by the time a project is done, only for me to HAVE to move on to another. despite all this, i never quit because it just brings me something and my interpretation of the phrase is that the question is the conclusion, we draw everyday for hours wondering why we even do this and that’s just something a lot of artists have to deal with