I love this snippet about Pablo Picasso. I think we can go back and improve on whatever we want to improve on. I have a canvas waiting for me to improve just a tad and then finish it. I guess I'm resistant because I really enjoy looking at it as I enter my happy place. It's a larger piece and I want to revel in it for a while. Maybe, that's what Picasso was doing. He enjoyed visiting his masterpieces and so he touched up some of them a bit. Nothing wrong with that, or is there? Oh, and what is the criteria for a painting to be a masterpiece?
Perfectionism can get the best of us, and I know I can perseverate, thinking I could do better or add something here or there. At some point it needs to be done, finished, voila!
"In his later years Pablo Picasso wasn't allowed to roam an art gallery unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces"
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