Live Creatively, Dangerously

I totally agree with the artist quote of the week, that creativity is indeed the capacity in which we allow ourselves to make mistakes, and art is the good stuff we decide to keep. Life is full of mistakes, whether we intend for them or not, and what makes "the good stuff" - the stuff that defines who we are as people - that's art. This is a quote that allows artists to be a little dangerous, to step outside the box and allow themselves to not only try new things, but to fail at them succesfully.

How does one fail succesfully? By keeping the mistakes that make art. I don't believe that any type of art is just thrown into the air on the first try. One of my favorite pieces of art, is Nighthawks, done by Edward Hopper in 1942, because to me it is a representation of nostalgic America, someplace I myself would want to be. However, Hopper's creation in 1942 was actually done forty years after his first work began in 1902. And no one can tell me that Led Zepplin's Stairway to Heaven was done in one try, or that the first production of Chicago was the best. I don't believe it.

So yes, I agree that if we allow ourselves to make mistakes, to keep doing what we're doing over and over again, to figure it out for oursevles what the "good stuff" in life really is - then we're finally creating art.