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Room for Improvement
The Point Is....
If we are not improving with everything we do every day, including our talents or crafts, then what is the use?
If our art doesn't get better with every piece that is created or nothing was learned from a painting that failed, we fall short and we fail.
If we think we have learned everything and that there is no room for improvement, it's time to look at our works and ourselves. There is always a whole lot more to learn and always tons of room for improvement, no matter who we are.
The art of our past was a stepping stone and reflects our journey to where we are now.
Look at the Masters of our past and present, do you truly believe they went back to repaint a portrait? Some early works barely represent what their mature works looked like later. Look at Rembrandt, his work only got better (sure, he painted over failed paintnigs, but he never went back and got a painting that was already in another's possesion).
Ingres only got better. They didn't go back and fix the old paintings. Thank goodness that they didn't go back and repaint older works, we can now see how they grew personally and know that it is a long path to and for better works.
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