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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 2402280" data-attributes="member: 11760">On a forum allegedly full of creative people, there sure are a lot of posters who don't seem to understand the creative process.Never being satisfied with something you worked on isn't a sign of a sellout just putting out stuff to &quot;feed his family,&quot; it's a sign that they're deeply involved in the process and have higher expectations of the work than they can necessarily achieve. This isn't a bad thing, unless we want to decide that William Shakespeare -- who made numerous revisions to his plays up until his retirement and in some cases beyond -- and many of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance, who often viewed their masterpieces as incomplete and imperfect, as hacks.In contrast, if there's ever a creative person who views their work as perfect, and not just &quot;I had to eventually stop, even though I really wish I had another 10 years to fiddle with it,&quot; I think those people are the folks just doing it for the paycheck, and no other reason.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 2402280, member: 11760"] On a forum allegedly full of creative people, there sure are a lot of posters who don't seem to understand the creative process. Never being satisfied with something you worked on isn't a sign of a sellout just putting out stuff to "feed his family," it's a sign that they're deeply involved in the process and have higher expectations of the work than they can necessarily achieve. This isn't a bad thing, unless we want to decide that William Shakespeare -- who made numerous revisions to his plays up until his retirement and in some cases beyond -- and many of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance, who often viewed their masterpieces as incomplete and imperfect, as hacks. In contrast, if there's ever a creative person who views their work as perfect, and not just "I had to eventually stop, even though I really wish I had another 10 years to fiddle with it," I think [i]those[/i] people are the folks just doing it for the paycheck, and no other reason. [/QUOTE]

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