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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much 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
Walter Bannard
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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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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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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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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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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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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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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 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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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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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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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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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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Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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