“Nobody can be bad at everything. There’s no such thing as a perfect screwup.”
Jim Butcher book Mean Streets
Source: Mean Streets
“Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.”
— John Ruskin, book The Stones of Venice
Volume II, chapter VI, section 24 http://books.google.com/books?id=AwICAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Of+human+work+none+but+what+is+bad+can+be+perfect+in+its+own+bad+way%22&pg=PA189#v=onepage. <br class="br">The Stones of Venice (1853)
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Context: I want to clarify our understanding of the word 'art' – to be sure, without an attempt to a definition. What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way as a bad emotion is still an emotion.
Therefore, when I refer to 'art coefficient', it will be understood that I refer not only to great art, but I am trying to describe the subjective mechanism which produces art in a raw state – 'à l'état brute' – bad, good or indifferent.