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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Truth is not always hard to find it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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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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Most art is just surface noise.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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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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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of 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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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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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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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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