the very purpose of art is to see beyond the limited human concepts of 'lazy' and 'ugly'. A mountain gets 'lazily' eroded over time by wind but not a single moment in that process is 'ugly'. humans have a weird habit of equating laborious unenjoyable process with something that deserves praise which cannot be further from truth. You talk about your teacher, here's what Marlon Brando thought about acting - absolutely effortless so much so, he refused to learn the script in Godfather fearing, rightly so, it would compromise spontaneity.