Ugly revolutions

“It’s always the mistakes. Most things begin as a mistake. Most breakthroughs in music come out of a revolution of the form. Someone revolted, and was probably not well liked. But he ultimately started his own country”.

–Tom Waits.

“When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don’t have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when the others make it after you”.

– Picasso (as quoted by Gertrude Stein).