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Walter Darby Bannard Inspirational Quotes (98)

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If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first name later.
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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
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Truth is not always hard to find it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
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