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Interesting video by Robert Spira ("Exploring The Impulse To Create Beauty") about the desire to create beauty by finding the essence of it. But he found that it was elusive. Aesthetic beauty is easy to create ("getting away with beauty"), but the je ne sais quoi and/or the sine qua non are more difficult. You'll never try hard enough to achieve that. It has to be wu wei. After, I watched a John Eddington interview with Roy Harper. He was talking about him doing the vocal on Have A Cigar because Roger Waters couldn't get in that range, and generally that it was a difficult record for them to make. Counter to Spira, sometimes essences come through and you don't see the struggle behind it. Struggle is usually hidden from view, masked by perceived essences. Pink Floyd albums were magic to me in the late 70s and inspired me to want to write music, but the struggles weren't apparent at that point.