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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

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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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Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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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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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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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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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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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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Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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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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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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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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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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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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