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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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 art is just surface noise.
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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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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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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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