Mediocrity
From: David Pye, Nature and Aesthetics of Design
Why should all the resources of design have been exhausted by now, after a mere ten thousand years of civilisation? The truth is that too many people are trying to be greater artists than God ever intended them for. The giants who change the whole face of art come very seldom but ordinary artists are not rare, and any one of them can do something worth doing if he only finds out and accepts the limits of his talent. Most of us can only do one or two things well. But it is the aggregate of the work of ordinary artists which has made by far the larger part of what is best in the environment we have inherited. To be an artist of limited scope is not to be a mediocre artist.