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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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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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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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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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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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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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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.
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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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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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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first name later.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
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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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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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