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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
Darby Bannard
W. Darby Bannard
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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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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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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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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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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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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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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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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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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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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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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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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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