A completed project is only made up of our intention and our experiments around it. Remove intention and all that’s left is the ornamental shell.

Rick Rubin

Rubin goes on to add, “Intention is more than a conscious purpose, it’s the congruence of that purpose.” Amen to that.

Footnotes

Rubin, Rick. The Creative Act, 2023, Penguin Press (978-0593652886), pp. 94–95