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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.

Walter Darby Bannard

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Walter Darby Bannard
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
Died: 2016
Died: October 2
Painter
Printmaker
New Haven
Connecticut
Darby Bannard
W. Darby Bannard
Walter Bannard
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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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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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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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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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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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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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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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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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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