The process is the art

When it comes to artistic expression, there is a trap. You start a project with some vision of the finished thing — the app, the essay, the company, the painting. And you fixate on that endpoint so hard that everything between here and there starts to feel like an obstacle. Like the work is just the tax you pay to get the result.

But in reality, the result is a snapshot. The art lies in the craft. I think it's more helpful to think about artists as "people obsessed with their craft", They refine their tools, their habits, their tastes.

In this sense, anyone can become a great artist - whether you are a painter, a physicist, an actor or a counsellor. Great artists care about how something gets built, not just that it gets built. Perhaps if we want a more artistic world, we will to think more about supporting for the journey, rather than the destination.