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Perfect Art Doesn’t Exist
The Beauty in Doing Something Just for Pleasure
It sounds harsh, but perfect art doesn’t exist. There is a lot of art out there that is amazing, fantastic, really, really, REALLY good. But perfect? No. And I’m not being super critical. Just logical. And it would seem to me to be incredibly arrogant for any artist to claim to have reached the status of perfection.
I think we can all agree (narcissists aside) that none of us are perfect. Logically, imperfect beings cannot create perfect things. Think of humans like cake pans. Each of the cake pans has little dents and dings in them. Because of those imperfections, none of the cake pans will ever produce a perfect cake. It’s as simple as that.
And that’s fine! There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s what makes this world interesting. And, it’s what makes our art interesting. It’s what keeps us aiming for perfection…or as close to it as we can get.
When did human beings become so controlled by our egos that we think that whatever we do has to be perfect? And for most of the planet, if there are any doubts or fears of making mistakes, then we don’t even try at all.
