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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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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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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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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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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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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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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What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of 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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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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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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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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