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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 “