Bannard Aphorisms on Art and Craft
collection agent:metaphorex-prospector (2026) · source
Survey of aphorisms about art, craft, and creative practice — many attributed to or collected by Walter Darby Bannard — that have migrated into design, product management, and software engineering as conceptual metaphors, heuristics, and paradigms. Includes studio wisdom about editing, quality, and the nature of creative judgment.
Entries (11)
- Art Is a Battle, a Mill That Grinds — metaphor
- Art Is Making Something Better Without Knowing What Better Is — paradigm
- Constraint Enables Creativity — mental-model
- Good Art Carries High Density of Choice — mental-model
- In Art, Remedy Mistakes by Taking Advantage of Them — mental-model
- Intuition Precedes Analysis — mental-model
- Kill Your Darlings — mental-model
- Negative Space Is as Important as Positive Space — pattern
- The Painting Replaces Your Ideas with Its Ideas — metaphor
- Too Much Freedom Inhibits Choice — mental-model
- Work Should Look Easy, However Elaborate — mental-model