Hammered

Cole Schafer, writing in his newsletter, The Process:

We should create art in much the same way that a master handyman drives home a nail. Once we’ve hammered in the nail, we should stop hammering as not to bruise the wood. Once we’ve created whatever it is we originally sought out to create, we should lift the pen from the paper, the brush from the canvas or the fingers from the strings and and have the courage to say, “I’m done”.

This is good advice with a great analogy.