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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
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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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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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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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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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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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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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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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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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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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