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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 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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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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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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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.
Walter Darby Bannard
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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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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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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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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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
Walter Darby Bannard
Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
Walter Darby Bannard
Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
Walter Darby Bannard
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
Walter Darby Bannard
There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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