RECOMMENDATION // APHORISMS FOR ARTISTS: 100 WAYS TOWARD BETTER ART

by Walter Darby Bannard

edited with foreword and afterword by Franklin Einspruch

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EXCERPT //

Artists know that solving technical problems is easier than considering the purpose and effects of artmaking. We fail daily, try again, and deviously undermine new solutions. Platitudes such as, “It’s just a matter of taste,” “Make it new,” or “Rules are made to be broken” overlook the emotional nature of creative failure. Walter Darby Bannard’s Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Better Art administers swift medicine for the demoralized and temporarily defeated.

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