The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
we may experience an absolute positive change and do the undone if we shift our thoughts from descriptive thinking to prescriptive thinking - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
[L]anguage functions best when we mediate between the descriptive and prescriptive influences, changing the rules to better suit some things, but sticking to them for others. - John Wiswell