make your way through experience
10th March 2017 | for Creatives | creative process, artist integrity, the successful artist, artists must EXPERIENCE, Samantha Pleet, fashion design, formal arts education |
"Even if you go to school and work a lot of internships, you can only really make your way through experience and the process of trial and error. You have to come up with your own method of doing things if you want to do something truly unique."
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