“A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.” TryingArtistFormulasCompetenceIncompetence Book:Mencken Chrestomathy Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.” WayArtistNaturalSeeingInfluencePerspectiveAcceptedFormulas Author:Graham Collier