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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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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To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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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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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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Most art is just surface noise.
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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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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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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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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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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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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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