tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post9041260879230624385..comments2024-03-27T23:55:17.673-07:00Comments on Flogging Babel: Jay DeFeo's Rose -- and the Lesson We Should Learn From ItMichael Swanwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-7269644408191634832013-03-25T11:03:13.208-07:002013-03-25T11:03:13.208-07:00The lesson applies to more than art. There's ...The lesson applies to more than art. There's an old saying "Sometimes you have to shoot the engineer and put the thing into production", and the landscape is littered with the corpses of products (and companies) who tried for perfection. Another saying is "Perfect is the enemy of good enough".<br /><br />Recognizing when something <i>is</i> good enough is the challenge.<br />______<br /><b>Dennis</b>DMcCunneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01405765936160659518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-18184659897228057032013-03-23T05:09:01.181-07:002013-03-23T05:09:01.181-07:00There's no such thing as "perfect" i...There's no such thing as "perfect" in art, Fin. Guernica isn't perfect -- and Picasso not only spent three months on it but he also, for possibly the only time in his life, solicited advice from other artists.<br /><br />The tragedy is not that DeFeo sacrificed her career but that she sacrificed her art. Nothing that she did after Rose was as good as what she did immediately before. Though the small oils she made as she was dying come close.Michael Swanwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-33303083116386367522013-03-22T09:38:25.096-07:002013-03-22T09:38:25.096-07:00It's not worth obsessing over one piece of wor...It's not worth obsessing over one piece of work.Tim_W_Burkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09030170177492009358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-87315658432043380392013-03-22T06:57:33.213-07:002013-03-22T06:57:33.213-07:00That it's worthy to sacrifice your career for ...That it's worthy to sacrifice your career for the chance to make something perfect?Fin Coehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11209735565108671462noreply@blogger.com