"Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures."

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Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.68, Image Continuum Press

David Bayles

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“I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most writers, the earmarks of thrift, if not outright povery, are evident.”
“My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.”
“It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.”
“Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child.”
“Once you get offstage you're just like everyone else, and everyone else can get into a fight.”
“I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.”
“Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor.”
“To be immortal and then die”

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