{"id":1284,"date":"2006-06-18T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2006\/06\/18\/your-ordinary-humanity\/"},"modified":"2006-06-18T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-18T14:01:00","slug":"your-ordinary-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/18\/your-ordinary-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Your ordinary humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&laquo; To require perfection is to invite paralysis. The pattern is predictable: as you see error in what you have done, you steer your work toward what you imagine you can do perfectly. You cling ever more tightly to what you already know you can do &#8211; away from risk and exploration, and possibly further from the work of your heart. You find reasons to procrastinate, since to not work is to not make mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>To demand perfection is to deny your ordinary (and universal) humanity, as though you would be better off without it. Yet this humanity is the ultimate source of your work; your perfectionism denies you the very thing you need to get your work done.<\/p>\n<p>It is precisely this interaction between the ideal and the real that locks your art into the real world, and gives meaning to both. &raquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0961454733\/104-0329552-8131152?v=glance&amp;n=283155\">Art &amp; Fear, Observations of the perils (and rewards) of artmaking<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&laquo; To require perfection is to invite paralysis. The pattern is predictable: as you see error in what you have done, you steer your work toward what you imagine you can do perfectly. You cling ever more tightly to what you already know you can do &#8211; away from risk and exploration, and possibly further&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/18\/your-ordinary-humanity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your ordinary humanity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}