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Walter Darby Bannard Inspirational Quotes (98)

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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.
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What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
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Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
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Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
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