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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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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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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 inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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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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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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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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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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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 art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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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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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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