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the moment skill stops trying and starts breathing, where the work begins forgiving itself.
means The creative skill and imaginative flair with which something is made or performed, beyond mere technical competence.
from From 'artist' plus the suffix '-ry' (denoting a quality, art, or practice — as in 'chemistry' or 'rivalry'). 'Artist' itself traces back through French 'artiste' to Latin 'ars, artis,' meaning skill or craft — the same root that gives us 'art' and 'artisan.' The word arrived relatively late in English compared to its kin, naming not the maker nor the made thing, but the quality moving between them.
- hidden labor
- Effortless mastery hides ten thousand ugly rough drafts
- the wabi-sabi
- Japanese aesthetics prize the flaw over the flawless
- brain on flow
- Peak artistry quiets the self-critical prefrontal cortex
- forgery problem
- Perfect copies fail because true artistry resists exact repetition
michelangelo's david — marble sculpture, florence, 1504, regarded as pinnacle of renaissance artistry
van gogh's starry night — oil painting, museum of modern art, 1889, exemplifies expressionist artistry
rodin's the thinker — bronze sculpture, musée rodin paris, 1880, masterwork of sculptural artistry