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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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
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W. Darby Bannard
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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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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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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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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.
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Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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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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