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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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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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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 anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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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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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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