If I have to dispense one advice to those seeking to create something, it is to never revisit your previous works. You will always find something ugly about it. These conceived flaws will be your downfall. Or, less dramatically, the errors you feel that you have committed will most likely keep you from ever creating something again. Whether it be a work of art, literature, a song, or an invention, things - or more accurately, the by-products of your imagination - will always seem brilliant at first thought.
In order to facilitate the conception of an idea, it is necessary for the artist to acquire that particular talent of acceptance and the gift of being solely preoccupied with the present. The habit of looking back creates a vacuum where both the desire to produce something, and the desire to produce something perfect collides. The person then, becomes too confused with wanting to build something and avoiding catastrophes with his subject.
The idea, is to create something. To appreciate the product of thought for what it is. Oftentimes, we become too preoccupied with the technicalities and the emotions tied to our inventions that when we revisit them, it becomes unbearable. Its tangibility is piercing.
The solution then, is to continuously create.
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