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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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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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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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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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