My goal is to have a quilt, a crafted useful object, at the end of projects. I don't do art meant to be looked at -- in which case my points and everything should be perfect if you are going to be looking at it. But my quilts are machine pieced, machine quilted, and machine washable and don't matter so much if a point or two are chopped off because their goal is for warmth and comfort.
Still, part of the joy in it for me is the math and having things go together well and easily. Part of the joy is putting together the fabrics and colors and patterns and having them go together correctly. I use art concepts and while I will challenge myself to use fabric that may be "ugly", the goal is to have something that rises above or elevates the basic concepts to find beauty in the humble.
We each have our own goals and desires and reasons on why we quilt. We each have our own journeys, I have vision issues and I feel my best days of quilting are behind me, but that I still have a future and presence in quilting and will continue to quilt while I can.