Perfection

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:

 

“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”

—Eugène Delacroix

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Comments

[marshallpayne1.livejournal.com]

Not to really argue with this quote--though I guess I am--this opposing one by Woody Allen from Annie Hall always resonated with me:

"You always try to make things perfect in art because it's so hard to do in real life."

Delacroix's quote is rather ambiguous. I think most of us who really care, try to get our "art" perfect. Not that we ever succeed. Perhaps the Cottingley Fairies disagree. ;-)

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Fairies in general tend to be contrary, in my experience.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

You'd do well to reject my reality.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The perfect is the enemy of the good, and all that.

Weirdly, as it happens, two entries in a row in my friends list feature paintings by Delacroix. What are the odds?

I like how you've changed your disclaimer.

....also, this orphan girl looks rather grown up. More like an orphan young woman than an orphan girl. Is this a detail from a larger painting? She looks like she's looking at someone.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

No, I think that's the complete painting. And I guess she's girl in the 19th century sense of any unmarried young woman. :-/