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Originally Posted by smoothmoniker
I think we're muddling concepts here.
Should fear of imperfection keep you from doing something? Of course not.
Once you're doing it, there are technical and creative skills to most tasks. The technical skills should be doggedly pursued with perfection being the goal. The creative skills should be propelled forward by experimentation, curiosity, and a healthy degree of "wrongness".
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Exactly. Kimon Nikolaides (the natural way to draw) said, "The sooner you make your first 500 mistakes, the sooner you can correct them."
All learning is about failure. My teacher used to say, "Seven times knocked down, eight times get up."