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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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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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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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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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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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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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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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