“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.”
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I paint with shapes.
Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.