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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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
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W. Darby Bannard
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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.
Walter Darby Bannard
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
Walter Darby Bannard
No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
Walter Darby Bannard
Live to paint, don't paint to live.
Walter Darby Bannard
When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
Walter Darby Bannard
Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
Walter Darby Bannard
Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
Walter Darby Bannard
When anything goes, everything goes.
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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
Walter Darby Bannard
One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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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.
Walter Darby Bannard
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
Walter Darby Bannard
Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
Walter Darby Bannard
Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
Walter Darby Bannard
When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
Walter Darby Bannard
