Paintings vs Photographs
Sifu Brinker recently mentioned something that really made me think: That something can be too perfect. This was strange to hear. Without ever really asking myself why, I've always held the notion that mastery and perfection were the same thing. Although they're closely related, they're not identical. I believe an example of this is the relation between a photograph and a painting. A photograph represents perfection. A photograph has the ability to perfectly replicate what you're seeing, over and over again. Never making a mistake. It's essentially perfect. However, a camera has no skill. All it does is see what's in front of it and make a perfect copy. On the other hand, painting represents mastery, or at least the effort to attain it. Never can an artist paint something perfectly. Never can an artist paint something without imposing some of their individual personality into it. The artist always makes mistakes, but in the end, they can still create something...