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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
Darby Bannard
W. Darby Bannard
Walter Bannard
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
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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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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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