Everything needs time to gestate

! [[ Everything that is allowed to be still will be much better —Thich Nhat Hanh ]]

For the artist, there is no measuring with time.1 Let your ideas and your art gestate.

!Being an artist means … ripening like the tree —Rainer Maria Rilke

!They are like plants growing in winter —Richard Avedon

Not every idea is ready to be developed. Save it for later. I have a list of [[ Ideas and questions ]] and an [[ 01 Inbox 📥 ]] of notes. Create a pipeline for those ideas so they can eventually be developed and not forgotten.2

  1. Letters to a Young Poet pg. 24 ↩

  2. 5 Tricks to Never Run Out of Ideas Again ↩

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