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Walter Darby Bannard Inspirational Quotes (98)

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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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