I think there is a stereotype associated with artists, that they are stupid, air-headed, and incapable of meeting demands and living on a schedule. I know a lot of people who feel like designers are out of touch with time.
I think though, that many designers develop a tainted distrust for time. Possibly this distrust is grounded in the fact that few design projects ever do what they are designed to do; to obtain harmony. Harmony is when nothing can be added or subtracted to or from a piece of artistic work.
First, often the language of visual work is debatable. For example, in a piece consisting of pure geometric forms, things can fit together to be 'harmonious', but generally people find perfect forms, ugly, or offensive, machine like, or inhumane.
More common is the debate about what visual harmony means, within the above language. The most beautiful arrangement of geometric blocks is debatable to say the least. Between these two difficulties, that of defining a visual language and that of finding the harmonies within this language, creates a near impossible goal of creating visual harmony.
Its impossible for the vast majority of master artists to ever even find original harmony. Projects have no obvious stopping point, if any at all. Is it any surprise then, that artists struggle with finding stopping points and meeting demands? They live in a world where nothing is sufficient, so maybe this apparently non-functional behavior isn't based around carelessness, but around an honest love in giving everyone and everything 100%.
