You cant rush the creative process

I came back from all of those failures because my deepest fear is and always will be quitting and saying “I should have, I could have, I would have..” quitters are forgotten forever and legends look for failure everyday. Replace legends with artists if you’d like, I believe we are all artists - human intelligence is mostly measured in art for as long as we can remember and art is the only universal language that we all speak in our own way.You see, as you grow, the situations become more - just, more - and as you learn to fail, you learn to smooth. Smooth doesn’t have to mean loss, it can equate to deeper strength but you have to be willing to spell and spelling means studying.

When I ran my global fashion consulting agency, pre-Imperfects, I used to tell my team everyday: the only enemy of creativity is the creative deadline. I would say this because ultimately, there is no such thing as a deadline if you are on the right path. Replace the word deadline with finish line or trophy or bonus; are you quitting after you get your finish line? Not if you love to spell. So many race car drivers have died racing at their height, so many alpinists have fallen from the peak they had on the ‘next’ list, so many artists have been eaten by their art. There is a fine line to all of this and it’s called onomatopoeia. Don’t forget to spell because you’ll forget the meaning of it all in the first place. Perhaps the greatest art we all accomplish at some point in life is a simple balance of two parts: recognition of the creative process and not rushing it.