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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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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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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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