Interesting Quote
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
- Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863), Good Earth tea bag quote
I would argue further that the goal of perfection is to create a state in which you are inherently doomed to fail, but that's because I believe there is no perfect state.
I often translate my tattoo to mean, "Stop trying to be perfect" when a more literal translation is "If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial". That concept of "wholeness" was a "perfect" state to me when I was younger, indicated by a feeling of sated at ease contentment that I was always waiting for but had never felt. I felt so defeated that, no matter what I did, I seemed unable to attain it. It was only when I first read this quote that I ever felt ... complete. Sated. At ease. Content.
What do you think?
- Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863), Good Earth tea bag quote
I would argue further that the goal of perfection is to create a state in which you are inherently doomed to fail, but that's because I believe there is no perfect state.
I often translate my tattoo to mean, "Stop trying to be perfect" when a more literal translation is "If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial". That concept of "wholeness" was a "perfect" state to me when I was younger, indicated by a feeling of sated at ease contentment that I was always waiting for but had never felt. I felt so defeated that, no matter what I did, I seemed unable to attain it. It was only when I first read this quote that I ever felt ... complete. Sated. At ease. Content.
What do you think?