You can also paint (no pun intended) metaphors about artists dedicating their whole lives to something, seeing through their vision to the point of insanity, dying broke and starving only to be appreciated for their genius later on.
"____ is an art" is often used as an excuse when ____ is being approached with a total lack of discipline...
But within that perserverence is the willingness to scap everything and restart again.
Some authors rewrite their books over and over again. I know in the crafting of a story that held firm to my vision, I had over 30 or 40 rough drafts that went into /dev/null. I will never know if any of those drafts were better than my final story, but my art is is in holding strong to my vision, and to be willing to discard, rewrite, ruthlessly edit, and endlessly revisit every single one of my assumptions about the plot, characters, mood, structure.
That is art, and no amount of armchair commentation will capture the beauty, frustration, and joy within this process.
Yes. It is possible for an artist to spend an entirety of his/her life reworking one single piece. and yes - it is true that within this work, he/she would have said no a million times to a million possible decisions, and restarted from scratch a million times.
"____ is an art" is often used as an excuse when ____ is being approached with a total lack of discipline...