When the average human thinks of art, he thinks of mainly of a masterpiece, where things come to together to make a whole, and everything is symmetrical and compliments something else. However, in real life, nothing natural is symmetrical, not even the human body. So why must art be? Is art symmetrical, does one line on one-half of the paper have to coincide with another line on the other half?.
In the world, there are no two things that are perfect or alike, even with the most sophisticated machines; there is still that .0001 percent error/flaw in everything that is made. "The earth is not round , an orange is not round , Take the leaf of a tree "take a hundred thousand other leaves of the same kind of tree "not one will exactly resemble the other."" (Renior 1958, 50) Irregularity and individualism is what makes art, for if someone was to "take a column and make it symmetrical with a compass, it loses its vital principle."" (Renior, 50) According to Renior, artists "must learn to know the laws of nature."" (Renior, 50) In this, he is saying nothing is symmetrically perfect or defined in nature, so then their art should not be either. To make this work he says, "The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest."" In today's society, beginning artists or young children first learning to draw are told to use their imagination to compose a piece, but according to Renior this should not be so, to him your imagination makes things to perfect, sees everything without flaw, and creates things without ambiguity. Take Picasso for instance many may say his work is very imaginative and he has a great imagination to come up with his work, but then again it may be that lack of imagination that he used to create those very ambiguous pieces of art instead of the ordinary paintings used to make wallpaper. Renior makes his point clear on page 51, instead of looking for advice, take a look at things for yourself, and do not be afraid to look back at the great masters to find what true art is, such as "Saint Marks' Cathedral in Venice: symmetrical, as a whole, but not one detail is like another!-.