Aphorisms for Artists by Walter Darby Bannard

Aphorism #49

Science and art are not opposed, they are just different.

Science adjusts language to explain reality. Art adjusts reality to understand life. One generates proof. The other generates pleasure.

Both are utterly dependent on imagination.

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