John O. Andersen

From the article:

>>When I used to schoolteach, my kids and I would discuss style a lot,
getting a style of your own and how that must be done. I gradually came to
feel it was very difficult unless you were alone a lot, had time and space
to yourself, were free of the need to attend other people's urgencies all
the time - or the urgencies of a commercial world. How can you expect to be
unique if every minute you draw models from other people and the shadows of
other people drawn from television? How can the unique destiny that is in
every one of us exercise itself if you always submit to the scrutiny and
judgment of authorities? Authorities on what? Certainly not on you unless
you have been diminished into something predictable, tamed by regulation,
simplification, and rationalization. A steady diet of that will waste all
your time.<<

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