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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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
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W. Darby Bannard
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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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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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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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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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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
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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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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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