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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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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Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.
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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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Don't explain, enjoy.
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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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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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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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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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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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