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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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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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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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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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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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Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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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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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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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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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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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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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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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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