Scott Adam's Quote

I think Scott Adam's meant that art isn't necessarily what you had invisioned in your mind. Sometimes artist just "freestyle" and see what they come up with. Mistakes are a part of art and I think it just adds to the creativity if artists can build off a mistake. Once a mistake is made, the outcome is going to be completely different than what they had expected, but that mistake could have made the artwork more than what they had imagined originally. I agree with his quote to some extent. Some artist's mistake could have lead to another artists master piece. But I do agree that artists need to make up that decission on whether to keep the mistake or discard the work and start over. One time I made a cake; and when I transfered it out of the pan onto a plate to ice, it fell apart. I decided to just cut the cake in half and make a double layered cake. I used the icing to cover up the "mistake". The cake didn't turn out how I had originally planned, but it still looked good (if not better) and tasted the same that it would have if it hadn't fallen apart. I think there is much to be said about artists who can turn a mistake into something better than they planned.