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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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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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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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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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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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When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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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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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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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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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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