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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
Convenience
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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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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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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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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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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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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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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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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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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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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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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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