“Before you go through the execution of making something, it exists in your head, and in your head, it's a perfect idea, perfect execution, perfect everything. It's beautiful. But when you go through the pain of creating something, you have to look into the face of your inadequacy... Here's a quote from Ira Glass about being a beginner and an artist: 'Nobody tells this to the people who are beginning, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste, but there is this gap. For the first couple of years you make stuff, it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you in the game, is still killer, and your taste is why your work disappoints you.'”
— Tessa Violet, Fear in Art

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