You hear a lot of people say, “you get out what you put in.”
Meaning that if you want a return on your sweat equity, roll up your sleeves and dive in.
But as anyone who’s spent their lives working will tell you…there’s a lot of crap out there.
You have to put up with a lot of it, and sometimes…you have to make it.
Nobody, and I believe this, sets out to make bad work.
However, once you go down that road and the deadlines press in…sometimes you just need to cut bait and move on.
I also believe that it’s better to have a product out there that’s finished, that you may not love the result of…than a project (or projects) that you’ve never set free because you don’t think they are perfect.
You have to ship your work.
If you don’t, you’re just pretending to do the job.
And who does that help?
Does it help you to get outside investments of peoples time and money and never release the project?
At some point, it has to be about more than the artist.
The art itself has to be enough, so that it can speak for itself in whatever way the viewer cares to listen.