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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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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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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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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
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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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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 is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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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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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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