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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.
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
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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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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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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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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