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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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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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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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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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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 imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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