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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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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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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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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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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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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
Walter Darby Bannard
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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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first name later.
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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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Most art is just surface noise.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
Walter Darby Bannard
Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
Walter Darby Bannard
When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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