For many an artist, the goal is always just out of reach.
As technical skills advance, creative vision advances concurrently, so that the ultimate goal is continually receding. To be a true artist is to consign oneself to a lifetime of unattainable work. It is to acknowledge the infinite vastness across which one is reaching; to recognize the immensity of learning that is possible and, with all humility, to dedicate oneself to that study, knowing that a single lifetime cannot possibly contain the resources of energy necessary to accomplish this lofty ambition. This humble and resolute dedication, in the face of impossibility, is simultaneously both a reverent and revolutionary act.